Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1995, 4:10 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 1995, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1995, 4:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Accomack County, VA, Northampton County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 30, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 30, 10:28 AM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 1028 AM EDT SUN APR 30 1995 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTHERN DELMARVA PENINSULA... AT 1025 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS NORTHEREAST VIRGINIA AND THE. THE DELMARVA PENINSULA. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING OVER NEW KENT COUNTY... AND PORTIONS OF THE MIDDLE PENINSULA...NORTHERN NECK...AND THE DELMARVA PENINSULA. ALL AREAS OF PRECIPITATION WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. RADAR DERIVED PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES CONTINUE TO INDICATE THAT BETWEEN ONE-HALF /0.50/ TO ONE /1.00/ INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF KING WILLIAM ...KING AND QUEEN...AND MIDDLESEX COUNTIES DURING THE PAST HOUR. SINCE 3 AM...THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG A LINE FROM CHESTERFIELD COUNTY TO NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY IN VIRGINIA... WHERE SOME AREAS HAVE RECEIVED CLOSE TO TWO /2.00/ INCHES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION IF DRIVING THIS MORNING. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY DOWNPOURS. FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER TES. RADIO....OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS. KELLER
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 11:21 AM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 1120 AM EDT SUN APR 30 1995 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO FALL OVER NORTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTHERN DELMARVA PENINSULA... AT 1120 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OCCURING OVER PORTIONS OF THE MIDDLE PENINSULA...NORTHERN NECK...AND THE DELMARVA PENINSULA. EAST OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE TOWN OF KING WILLIAM IN KING WILLIAM COUNTY...AND OVER SOUTHERN ESSEX AND NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES. ON THE DELMARVA...THE RAIN WAS HEAVIEST OVER THE TOWNS OF PRINCESS ANN AND CRISFIELD IN SOMERSET COUNTY. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHAMPTON COUNTY VIRGINIA NEAR THE TOWN OF CAPE CHARLES. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. RADAR DERIVED PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT BETWEEN ONE-HALF /0.50/ TO ONE /1.00/ INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF MIDDLESEX AND LANCASTER COUNTIES DURING THE PAST HOUR. SINCE 3 AM...THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG A LINE FROM CHESTERFIELD COUNTY TO NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY IN VIRGINIA... WHERE CENTRAL SECTIONS KING WILLIAM...KING AND QUEEN...AND ESSEX COUNTIES HAVE RECEIVED ALMOST /2.00/ INCHES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION IF DRIVING THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS ...AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY DOWNPOURS.. FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO....AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS. KELLER
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 3:12 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 12:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 68 min |
| Apr 30, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 56 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.