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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 1, 1998Brunswick County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Virginia. It was in force for 45 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: May 1, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1998, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Brunswick County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 1, 8:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 8:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
840 PM EDT FRI MAY 1 1998

DISCN:
88D SHOWED SHRAS/STRNG TSRAS JUST SW OF OUR CWA.  THIS PCPN WAS
MOVNG ENE ALNG AND JUST N OF WK FRNTL BNDRY.  BELIEVE STRNGEST
TSTMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE E AND REMAIN ALNG/NR FRNT OVRNGT.
SO..WE WILL KEEP AN EYE ON TSTMS DRIFTING INTO OUR EXTRM SW/SRN
CNTIES FOR ESPLLY THE NEXT COUPLE OF HRS.  OTHERWISE...EXPECT
JUST A WIDELY SCTD -SHRA/-TSRA ACRS RESTB OF FA OVRNGT.

CWF: SEE WRKMAR.

RIC 58/77/55 333     SBY 56/75/54 333
ORF 59/77/60 332     ECG 60/79/60 332 32

GINGRICH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 8:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

VAZ065-079-087-NCZ012-020130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
821 PM EDT FRI MAY 01 1998

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING INTO EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL
VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 820 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERTORMS
DEVELOPING FROM PORTIONS OF HALIFAX INTO PERSON COUNTIES IN
EXTREME NORTHERN NORTH CAROLINA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE
FOUND MOVING INTO SECTIONS OF PITTSYLVANIA AND HALIFAX COUNTIES
IN SOUTHERN VIRGINIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH
AND ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY
IN NORTH CAROLINA...AND MECKLENBURG...BRUNSWICK AND GREENSVILLE
COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA BETWEEN 845 AND 1030 PM.

WATCH FOR SIGNS OF AN APPROACHING STORM SUCH AS LIGHTNING...
THUNDER AND INCREASING WINDS. IMMEDIATELY MOVE INDOORS
WHEN LIGHTNING IS SEEN OR THUNDER IS HEARD.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE FREQUENT
UPDATES THROUGH TIMELY STATEMENTS...NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OUR
WORLD WIDE WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/AKQ/

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Local storm report, May 1, 10:28 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 1, 10:28 PM EDT, 32 minutes 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
May 1, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Mecklenburg	32 min
May 1, 11:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex	31 min
May 1, 11:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Emporia	31 min
May 1, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	31 min
May 1, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hertford	33 min
May 1, 9:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Hertford	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.