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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 8, 1995Mecklenburg County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 8:44 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Mecklenburg County, VA

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2013 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2013 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick, Greensville41 min
Jun 9, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick, Greensville45 min
Jun 9, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMecklenburg46 min
Jun 9, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLunenburg40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.