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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 15, 1998City of Poquoson, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 6:37 PM EDT for City of Poquoson, Virginia. 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
Jun 15, 1998, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1998, 7:10 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County City of Poquoson, VA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 15, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

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 Jun 15, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
220 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

WRKZNS SENT TO WBC/RDU VIA ADMAKQ.  WRKMAR SENT.

DISCN:
TNGT...SAT PIX SHW LOTS OF CU DVLPMT...AND SOME CLOUD STREETS DUE TO
RLTVLY STG UNIDIRECTIONAL WNDS THRU A DP LYR.  SOME CNVCTN W OF THE
MTNS TRACKING ENE WTH THE SRN EDGE OF THE UPRLVL SYSTEM.  WTR VPR PIX
SHW UPSTRM SYS OVR SERN CANADA LIFTING N...ALLOWING OH VALLEY SYSTEM TO
ALSO LIFT A LTL N.  ADAP SHWS BETTEWR LLVL CNVRGNC OVR NRN VA INTO MD
WHERE A SMALL SFC WV HAS FORMED.  ANTHR CNTR OVR SERN NC...AND SOME
ISOLD ACTIVITY OVR NRN NC AND WRN VA. MDLS SUGG A LLVL SPD MAX TRACKS
THRU DELMARVA THS EVE...AND BEST CHCS FOR MORE WDSPRD TSRA AND SVR LUK
TO STILL BE N OF RIC TO DELMARVA...ALTHO RIC TO HMPTN RDS AND NERN NC
SHUD SEE WDLY SCT TSRA...ANY OF WHCH CUD BECOME SVR.  A WK LLVL DWPT
BNDRY FCST TO TRACK THRU THE REGION...ALG WTH THE SFC WV OVR DELMARVA
TRACKING NE.  NO UPRLVL SUPPORT FOR SFC DWPT BNDRY TO TRACK VRY FAR
E...WHCH SUGG THE MINIMAL ACTIVITY OVR SRN VA AND NERN NC.

TMRW...UPRLVL SYSTEM CURRENTLY OUT IN KS TRACKS E AND MDLS SHWG
AMBIGUOUS LLVL SPEED MAX OVR VA/NC AS THIS SYSTEM APPCHS.  BETTER
UPRLVL FRNT ASSOC WTH THIS SYSTEM...AND DYNMCS APPCHG AREA WL BRG ANTHR
LLVL DWPT BNDRY TO THE REGION.  WTH HGTS FALLING AND QUITE A BIT OF
COOLING ALF...ANTHR ROUND OF STG/SVR CNVCTN PSBL OVR THE CWA.  TEMPS WL
RCH NR 90 BASED ON MIXING.

TMRW NGT...ANY LINGERING ACTIVITY WL END...THEN MSTLY CLR...WTH SW WNDS
TURNING W...AND SFC DWPTS FALLING FRTHR INTO 60S.

WED INTO WEEKEND...A BIT OF A COOLDOWN AT H8 ON WED...SO TEMPS WL BA A
CAT OR SO COOLER...AND NO CNVCTN.  QUICK W TO WNW UPR FLO SUGG NR
NORMAL TEMPS AND WTH SMALL UPRLVL IMPULSES TRACKING QUICKLY E...MDLS
CANT AID IN POPS...SO SMALL CHC POPS EACH DAY.

ON CSTL WTRS...WNDS STILL TO INCRS FROM SW INTO THS EVE AND
OVRNGT...SEE WRKMAR.

RIC 68/89/67/88 4321     SBY 66/87/66/86 5421
ORF 70/89/68/88 3321     ECG 71/89/68/88 3321 07

NS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
507 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0501 PM    GOOCHLAND                 VA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   GOOCHLAND                      GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY EOC

KLL
Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
507 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0501 PM    GOOCHLAND                 VA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   GOOCHLAND                      GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY EOC

KLL
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQFluvanna35 min
Jun 15, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGoochland, Powhatan36 min
Jun 15, 5:12 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGoochland33 min
Jun 15, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHenrico36 min
Jun 15, 5:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQHenrico, City of Richmond32 min
Jun 15, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMecklenburg32 min
Jun 15, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSouthampton, City of Franklin34 min
Jun 15, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Suffolk34 min
Jun 15, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQYork, City of Newport News33 min
Jun 15, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBertie33 min
Jun 15, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBertie34 min
Jun 15, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChowan34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.