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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 15, 1996City of Hopewell, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1996, 6:06 PM EDT for City of Hopewell, Virginia. It was in force for 54 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
Jul 15, 1996, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County City of Hopewell, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1856 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
1856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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
Jul 15, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAmelia36 min
Jul 15, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield, Dinwiddie, City of Colonial Heights38 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCharles City, Prince George54 min
Jul 15, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLancaster26 min
Jul 15, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGloucester, Mathews26 min
Jul 15, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMiddlesex26 min
Jul 15, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGloucester29 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.