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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 8, 1998City of Suffolk, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 2:26 PM EDT for City of Suffolk, 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
May 8, 1998, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County City of Suffolk, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1998-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 304 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1998-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 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
304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 6:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPrince Edward32 min
May 8, 8:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPrince George, Sussex21 min
May 8, 10:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Petersburg19 min
May 8, 10:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPrince George, City of Hopewell28 min
May 8, 10:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQJames City21 min
May 8, 11:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCharles City, New Kent17 min
May 8, 11:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMecklenburg31 min
May 8, 12:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAmelia35 min
May 8, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSouthampton34 min
May 8, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight34 min
May 8, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Franklin34 min
May 8, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk32 min
May 8, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Norfolk32 min
May 8, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Virginia Beach34 min
May 8, 12:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton36 min
May 8, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton18 min
May 8, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton35 min
May 8, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHertford32 min
May 8, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCamden, Pasquotank33 min
May 8, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCurrituck36 min
May 8, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPerquimans19 min

Nearby

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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.