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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Wakefield, VA

April 8, 1998Lunenburg County, Mecklenburg County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 8:21 PM EDT for Lunenburg County, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It was in force for 34 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
Apr 8, 1998, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1998, 8:55 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 8, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Apr 8, 2:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAmelia33 min
Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick47 min
Apr 8, 9:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQWestmoreland17 min
Apr 8, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLouisa32 min
Apr 8, 10:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCaroline20 min
Apr 8, 10:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQWestmoreland19 min
Apr 8, 10:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQEssex19 min
Apr 8, 10:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQWestmoreland19 min
Apr 9, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield, City of Richmond35 min
Apr 9, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHanover, King William35 min
Apr 9, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHenrico, New Kent32 min
Apr 9, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQKing and Queen17 min
Apr 9, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLancaster, Richmond33 min
Apr 9, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQEssex, Middlesex33 min
Apr 9, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthumberland18 min
Apr 9, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Suffolk32 min
Apr 9, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQYork21 min
Apr 9, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGloucester21 min
Apr 9, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth37 min
Apr 9, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMathews19 min
Apr 9, 4:14 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach36 min
Apr 9, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAccomack, Northampton33 min
Apr 9, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSurry19 min
Apr 9, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight17 min
Apr 9, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Newport News33 min
Apr 9, 7:04 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth31 min
Apr 9, 7:04 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Suffolk31 min
Apr 9, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton35 min
Apr 8, 10:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSomerset35 min
Apr 9, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQWorcester16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.