Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 4, 1999, 6:36 PM EDT for City of Portsmouth, Virginia. It was in force for 19 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
- Sep 4, 1999, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1999, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County City of Portsmouth, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 13 hr |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 1:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Newport News | 34 min |
| Sep 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 20 min |
| Sep 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 20 min |
| Sep 4, 6:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Newport News | 19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.