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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 15, 1998Fluvanna County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 10:03 PM EDT for Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1998, 10:03 PM EDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 10:35 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Fluvanna County, VA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 10:04 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Central Plains, VA	Several trees down along Route 646.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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, 7 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:20 PM EDT, 7 hours 43 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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Lunenburg	47 min
Jun 16, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Nottoway	49 min
Jun 16, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Louisa	31 min
Jun 16, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Powhatan	36 min
Jun 16, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Mecklenburg	34 min
Jun 16, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield	51 min
Jun 16, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick	36 min
Jun 16, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	34 min
Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Southampton, Sussex	47 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	33 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline	48 min
Jun 16, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Franklin	32 min
Jun 16, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Suffolk	33 min
Jun 16, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Hampton, City of Newport News	48 min
Jun 16, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	48 min
Jun 16, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	33 min
Jun 16, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	35 min
Jun 16, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1998 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.