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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 8, 1990Charles City County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 10:17 PM EDT for Charles City County, Virginia. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1990, 10:17 PM EDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1990, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Charles City County, VA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1990-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2490 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1990-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2490 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
10.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:38 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
VAZ003-006-007-082200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA
438 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT...

 AT 430 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORMS FROM GRANVILLE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA...EAST NORTHEAST
INTO TIDEWATER VIRGINIA.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AND
NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH.  THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS MECKLENBURG
AND BRUNSWICK COUNTIES BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM.  ALSO...ADDITIONAL STORMS
DEVELOPING FURTHER TO THE NORTH MAY AFFECCT DINWIDDIE AND PRINCE GEORGE
COUNTIES BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM.

  THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VIVID DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY
RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS.  SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AS WELL.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO AN INDOOR AREA AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.  REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR
RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

GLILLEN
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:58 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSouthampton65 min
Jun 8, 9:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQDinwiddie, Prince George56 min
Jun 9, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQRockbridge67 min
Jun 9, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQRockbridge45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.