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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Wakefield, VA

March 15, 1996City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 2:57 PM EST for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 1996, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 1996, 3:30 PM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Currituck County, NC, City of Virginia Beach, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 2:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSouthampton, City of Franklin25 min
Mar 15, 2:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth35 min
Mar 15, 2:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCamden, Gates, Pasquotank33 min
Mar 15, 3:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChowan, Perquimans28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.