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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 5, 1996Prince George County, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 10:57 PM EDT for Prince George County, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg, Virginia. It was in force for 63 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
May 5, 1996, 10:57 PM EDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1996, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, Prince George County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1038 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.1

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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
May 5, 8:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLunenburg57 min
May 5, 9:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPrince Edward63 min
May 5, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAmelia, Nottoway58 min
May 5, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLunenburg58 min
May 5, 10:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield, Dinwiddie62 min
May 5, 10:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick55 min
May 5, 11:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGreensville, Sussex66 min
May 6, 1:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGreensville, City of Emporia61 min
May 6, 1:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 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.