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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 6, 1996Henrico County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1996, 5:40 AM EDT for Henrico County, Virginia. It was in force for 20 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: Sep 6, 1996, 5:40 AM EDT (09:40 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 1996, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Henrico County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 907 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Sep 6, 2:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 6, 3:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 1:55 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Southampton	20 min
Sep 6, 2:51 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Nottoway	34 min
Sep 6, 3:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Dinwiddie	35 min
Sep 5, 11:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Northampton	47 min
Sep 6, 1:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Gates	33 min
Sep 6, 1:32 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Pasquotank	18 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.