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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 1, 1990City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1990, 3:42 PM EDT for City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 1990, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1990, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Virginia Beach, 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 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.

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, Jul 1, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:50 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:21 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

VAZ010-013-018-011900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA
225 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 1990

 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF VIRGINIA UNTIL
9PM EDT THIS SUNDAY EVENING.

AT 220 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF FLUVANNA COUNTY EXTENDING
EAST ACROSS LOUISA COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AROUND 30 MPH. ANOTHER LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO
NORTHWEST PORTION OF HIGHLAND COUNTY.

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE STATE OF VIRGINIA
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
BE SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND DAMAGI.NG
WINDS.

GCW

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:36 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

VAZ001>004-012030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA
330    PM EDT SUN  JUL  1  1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900PM...
AT 330 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHERN SUFFOLK
SOUTHWEST TO FRANKLIN IN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND ARE LIKELY PRODUCING
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN
SUFFOLK AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY.

RESIDENTS OF THE SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS CITIES SHOULD BE ON THE
LOOKOUT FOR THESE APPROACHING STORMS.

A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LOWER BAY SOUTH
OF POINT LOOKOUT AND FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM PARRAMORE ISLAND
SOUTH TO THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER UNTIL 5PM.
A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST THORUGH
NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN PORTIONS
OF THE NORTHERN NECK BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM. RESIDENTS OF THAT
AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO THELSE APPROACHING STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO
FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
RITTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Goochland	69 min
Jul 1, 5:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Nottoway, Prince Edward	44 min
Jul 1, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Suffolk	63 min
Jul 1, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hanover, Henrico	54 min
Jul 1, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City	66 min
Jul 1, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Powhatan	66 min
Jul 1, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Alleghany	66 min
Jul 1, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews	59 min
Jul 1, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Middlesex	59 min
Jul 1, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Buckingham, Fluvanna, Goochland	43 min
Jul 1, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield	46 min
Jul 1, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	55 min
Jul 1, 6:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	32 min
Jul 1, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	35 min
Jul 1, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1990 Every 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.