Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1996, 7:58 PM EDT for Charles City County, New Kent County, Virginia. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 27, 1996, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Charles City County, VA, New Kent County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 8:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Barhamsville, VA |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 27, 2:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 2:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 223 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 1996 DISCUSSION: TRW ACTIVITY GOING STRONG IN LOWER MARYLAND COUNTIES WITH COPIOUS RAINFALL. NOT A LOT OF DYNAMIC FORCES AT WORK ELSEWHERE ACCORDING TO THE MODELS...MAINLY INSTABILITY ACROSS THE REGION TO FIRE THIINGS OFF AFTER SOME WARMING. STILL WATCHING SE VIRGINIA AND NE NORTH CAROLINA FOR DEVELOPMENT GIVEN OLD BOUNDARIES FROM THIS MORNING. FEEL SITUATION WARRANTS AT LEAST 30 POPS MOST OF WESTERN CWA...WITH 40 TO 60 EAST FOR THIS EVENING. WITH NO SIGNIFICANT FORCING MECHANISMS MOST ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE OFF AFTER SUNSET. EXPECTED LIGHT WIND FIELD FOR TONIGHT BODES WELL FOR FOG...SOME LIKELY TO BE DENSE. SOME COOLER AND DRIER AIR ALOFT FOR TOMORROW...WHILE SURFACE LOW MOVES OFF COAST AND HIGHER PRESSURE MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. HOWEVER THE UPPER TROF APPEARS TO MOVE THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING WHICH MAY PROVIDE SOME IMPETUS TO KICK SOMETHING OFF. EITHER WAY THOUGH LOOKS TO BE A RATHER CLOUDY AND UNSEASONABLY COOL DAY ONCE AGAIN WITH THE HOPE FOR SOME PEEKS OF AFTERNOON SUN. OTHERWISE MODELS SHOW AT LEAST WEAK DOWNWARD MOTION AFTER 24 HOURS. NO PROBLEMS WITH MARINE INTERESTS. RIC 67/82/65 321 SBY 65/82/63 431 ORF 69/79/67 431 ECG 70/82/69 442 VALONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover | 48 min |
| Aug 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Henrico, New Kent | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 1:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Worcester | 27 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.