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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 11, 1995Northampton County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1995, 1:46 PM EDT for Northampton County, Virginia. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 1995, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Northampton County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 213 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 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.

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 May 11, 9:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 9:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
946 AM EDT THU MAY 11 1995

WBC: EITHER INCRS WNDS TO 20 MPH OR DROP THE TERM "BREEZY" FROM FCST.
     BUMP UP HIGHS TO UPR 70S OR PSBLY 75-80 FOR LWR MD ERN SHORE.
     REWORD AS MSTLY SUNNY CNTRL VA...KEEP PT SUNNY ALONG COAST. KEEP
     AFTRN TRW ACROSS THE SE.

RAH: NO CHANGES NEEDED FOR NE NC.

DSCN:
WRM FRNT SHUD LIFT NRTH OF SBY NXT FEW HRS. OBS ALRDY SHWND F STARTING
TO LIFT. THIS PUTS ALL OF AKQ CWA IN WRM SCTR UNTIL ARRIVAL OF COLD FRNT.
SAT LOOP SHWNG CLRG SKIES EAST OF MTS WITH DEBRIS CLDS OVR THE SE VA/ NE
NC. H20 VAPOR LOOP INDCTG DRY AIR BEGINNING TO FILTER INTO REGION AIDING
IN THE DCRG IN CLDS.

AKQ 88D SHWNG DSTNCTV BNDRY ACROSS SE VA AND NE NC LEFTOVR FROM LAST NITES
ACTVTY. SAT LOOP ALSO SHWNG HINT OF THE BNDRY AS WELL. THIS FEATURE PRBLY
A TRIGGER FOR AFTRN TRW AS COLD FRNT APPRCHS THAT RGN. AM SNDG DATA SPRTS
FCSTD HIGHS ELSEWHERE.

.RIC...83 POPS...10       .SBY...78 POPS...10
.ORF...85 POPS...30       .ECG...86 POPS...30

MPR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Goochland	45 min
May 11, 1:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield	27 min
May 11, 1:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Prince George	36 min
May 11, 2:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, New Kent	30 min
May 11, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	22 min
May 11, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie	46 min
May 11, 7:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Bertie	29 min
May 11, 7:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Chowan	29 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.