Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 3:55 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Virginia. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1995, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brunswick County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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.
NWS Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 3:10 PM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:10 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna, Goochland | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Powhatan | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Cumberland | 6 hr |
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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.