Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 4:53 PM EDT for Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was in force for 47 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 16, 1998, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 5:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lunenburg County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Plantersville, VA | Few trees down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 32 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.