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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 25, 1995Hanover County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 6:40 PM EDT for Hanover County, Virginia. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 7:33 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Hanover County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 57 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLouisa27 min
May 25, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCaroline65 min
May 25, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCaroline, King and Queen, King William60 min
May 25, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQWicomico38 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.