Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 4, 1992, 3:04 PM EDT for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 4, 1992, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1992, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County City of Virginia Beach, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 856 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KORF 041906 TORORF VAC810-041945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 304 PM EDT FRI SEP 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK VA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA... ...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA BEACH AND EASTERN VIRGINIA BEACH A NAVY FORECASTER SPOTTED A FUNNEL CLOUD IN THE PRINCESS ANNE PARK AREA OF VIRGINIA BEACH. THIS IS JUST NORTH OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT COMPLEX. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS FUNNEL CLOUD IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE FROM SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA BEACH INTO THE OCEANFRONT AREA SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. WALSTON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 4, 2:08 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
VAZ001>004-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 2:05 PM EDT FRI SEP 4 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA... AT 200 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM HERTFORD COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA TO THE BACK BAY AREA OF VIRGINIA BEACH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN VIRGINIA BEACH IN BACK BAY. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING SOUTHERN VIRGINIA BEACH MAINLY SOUTH OF THE RESORT STRIP DURING THE NEXT HOUR. A LIGHT SHOWER IS INDICATED ALONG THE OCEANFRONT NEAR CAMP PENDLETON AND A THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN COURTLAND AND BOYKINS IN SOUTHERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY. CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON OVER THE AREA. . ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BREIF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING. WALSTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 40 min |
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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.