Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 11, 1995Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Bertie County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 11, 6:57 PM EDTTornado F1Askewville, NCBrief tornado touchdown caused damage (some major) to several sheds/outbuilding. Numerous trees down, a couple of which were on automobiles. Tornado path was east-west and about three-eighths mile long from approximately one-quarter mile northeast to one-half

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 213 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 9:48 AM EDT, 8 hours 41 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 11, 4:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
435 PM EDT THU MAY 11 1995

TIME(EDT)  ...LOCATION...         STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...

APPROX     NORTHAMPTON              VA    KlIPTOEPEKE STATE PARK REPORTED
230 PM                                    QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND NEAR 50
                                          MPH WINDS.

RUSNAK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 10:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGoochland45 min
May 11, 1:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield27 min
May 11, 1:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield, Prince George36 min
May 11, 2:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCharles City, Henrico, New Kent30 min
May 11, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton44 min
May 11, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Virginia Beach22 min
May 11, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQBertie29 min
May 11, 7:16 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChowan29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.