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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 9, 1990Rockbridge County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT for Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1990, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Rockbridge 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1990-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 90 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1990-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 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
90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-241 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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 8, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCharles City43 min
Jun 9, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQRockbridge67 min

Nearby

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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.