Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1994, 11:14 AM EDT for City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1994, 11:14 AM EDT (15:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1994, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 581 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KORF 271514 TORORF VAC550-810-271600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 1114 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA THE INDEPENDENT CITIES OF ...SOUTHERN CHESAPEAKE...SOUTHERN VIRGINIA BEACH ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNITL 4 PM EDT... VIRGINIA BEACH POLICE REPORTED A REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD IN THE INDIAN RIVER ROAD AREA. A LARGE AREA OF SHKOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING FROM NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INTO VIRGINIA BEACH. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING LTO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. BOTTOM
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, Jun 27, 10:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
VAZ-070>073-080>083-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA 1002 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT... AT 1000 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT VOLENS VIRGINIA INDICATED A LINE OF NEWLY DEVELOPED SHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE RICHMOND METRO AREA. THE LINE OF STORMS IS 10 MILES WIDE WITH ITS LEADING EDGE FROM GLEN ALLEN IN WESTERN HENRICO COUNTY SOUTH TO DINWIDDIE IN DINWIDDIE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA OVER THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST THE LATEST STATEMENT AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TLM
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 10:03 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
VAZ-070>073-080>083-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA 1002 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT... AT 1000 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT VOLENS VIRGINIA INDICATED A LINE OF NEWLY DEVELOPED SHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE RICHMOND METRO AREA. THE LINE OF STORMS IS 10 MILES WIDE WITH ITS LEADING EDGE FROM GLEN ALLEN IN WESTERN HENRICO COUNTY SOUTH TO DINWIDDIE IN DINWIDDIE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA OVER THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST THE LATEST STATEMENT AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TLM
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 10:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
VAZ-070>073-080>083-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR ARRANGEMENT OF LAST SENTENCE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA 1005 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT... AT 1000 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT VOLENS VIRGINIA INDICATED A LINE OF NEWLY DEVELOPED SHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE RICHMOND METRO AREA. THE LINE OF STORMS IS 10 MILES WIDE WITH ITS LEADING EDGE FROM GLEN ALLEN IN WESTERN HENRICO COUNTY SOUTH TO DINWIDDIE IN DINWIDDIE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA OVER THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TLM
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 10:06 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
VAZ-070>073-080>083-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR ARRANGEMENT OF LAST SENTENCE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA 1005 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT... AT 1000 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT VOLENS VIRGINIA INDICATED A LINE OF NEWLY DEVELOPED SHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE RICHMOND METRO AREA. THE LINE OF STORMS IS 10 MILES WIDE WITH ITS LEADING EDGE FROM GLEN ALLEN IN WESTERN HENRICO COUNTY SOUTH TO DINWIDDIE IN DINWIDDIE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA OVER THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TLM
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 10:26 AM EDT, 48 minutes before
VAZ074>078-084>100-271530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 1026 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN VIRGINIA UNTIL 4 PM EDT... AT 10 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND NEAR RICHMOND. ANOTHER SMALL THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SUSSEX COUNTY. THERE WAS A REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUDY OVER SUSSEX COUNTY, THE SHERRIF DEPARTMENT HAD NO REPORTS OF ANY TOUCHDOWNS. THE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS ARE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. THE WEATHER SERVICE WILL ISSUED ADDITIONAL STATEMETNS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. BOTTOM
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 10:30 AM EDT, 44 minutes before
VAZ074>078-084>100-271530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 1026 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN VIRGINIA UNTIL 4 PM EDT... AT 10 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND NEAR RICHMOND. ANOTHER SMALL THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SUSSEX COUNTY. THERE WAS A REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUDY OVER SUSSEX COUNTY, THE SHERRIF DEPARTMENT HA0D NO REPORTS OF ANY TOUCHDOWNS. THE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS ARE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. THE WEATHER SERVICE WILL ISSUED ADDITIONAL STATEMETNS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. BOTTOM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 10:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, King and Queen, King William, New Kent | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 10:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 68 min |
| Jun 27, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Suffolk | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 63 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.