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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 16, 1998Dorchester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 7:41 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Maryland. It was in force for 49 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, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1998, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Dorchester County, MD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 7:50 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCambridge, MDPower lines 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 16, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1998-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1998-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Jun 15, 10:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQFluvanna32 min
Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLunenburg47 min
Jun 16, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNottoway49 min
Jun 16, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLouisa31 min
Jun 16, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPowhatan36 min
Jun 16, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMecklenburg34 min
Jun 16, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield51 min
Jun 16, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick36 min
Jun 16, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGreensville, City of Emporia34 min
Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSouthampton, Sussex47 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQEssex, Richmond, Westmoreland33 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCaroline48 min
Jun 16, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight, City of Franklin32 min
Jun 16, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Suffolk33 min
Jun 16, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Hampton, City of Newport News48 min
Jun 16, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth48 min
Jun 16, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Virginia Beach33 min
Jun 16, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 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.