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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 1, 1990City of Virginia Beach, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1990, 6:43 PM EDT for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1990, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1990, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1990-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1990-07-01The 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
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 8:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGoochland69 min
Jul 1, 5:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNottoway, Prince Edward44 min
Jul 1, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach63 min
Jul 1, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Suffolk63 min
Jul 1, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHanover, Henrico54 min
Jul 1, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCharles City66 min
Jul 1, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPowhatan66 min
Jul 1, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAlleghany66 min
Jul 1, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGloucester, Mathews59 min
Jul 1, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMiddlesex59 min
Jul 1, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBuckingham, Fluvanna, Goochland43 min
Jul 1, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield46 min
Jul 1, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach55 min
Jul 1, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach35 min
Jul 1, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick62 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.