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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 19, 1995Somerset County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 6:25 AM EDT for Somerset County, Maryland. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 6:25 AM EDT (10:25 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 7:00 AM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Somerset County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 1514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 12.7

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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 19, 2:38 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:38 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 4:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince Edward	58 min
May 18, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Lunenburg	62 min
May 19, 4:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Lunenburg, Prince Edward	43 min
May 19, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Sussex	53 min
May 19, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry	48 min
May 19, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	York, City of Hampton	54 min
May 19, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton	26 min
May 19, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	47 min
May 19, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	42 min
May 19, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton	37 min
May 19, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	40 min
May 19, 6:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Worcester	35 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.