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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wakefield, VA

February 17, 1998Goochland County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1998, 9:03 PM EST for Goochland County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 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
Feb 17, 1998, 9:03 PM EST (02:03 UTC)
Expired
Feb 17, 1998, 9:35 PM EST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Goochland County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1998-02-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1998-02-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 390 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
390 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
445 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 17, 7:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQFluvanna33 min
Feb 17, 7:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCumberland, Goochland33 min
Feb 17, 8:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLouisa33 min
Feb 17, 8:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCumberland, Powhatan30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.