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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1999, 11:17 PM EDT for Gates County, Pasquotank County, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was in force for 18 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1999, 11:17 PM EDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1999, 11:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gates County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 11:30 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Durants Neck, NC | Two houses destroyed one half mile apart near the Albemarle Sound. Also, several other homes were damaged and trees were down. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 15, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Sep 15, 10:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 10:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 8:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 8:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 8:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Franklin | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 10:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | York, City of Hampton, City of Poquoson | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 10:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | James City, City of Newport News | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 10:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Williamsburg | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 10:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 10:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Surry | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Prince George, City of Hopewell | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Sussex | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Petersburg | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Emporia | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Charles City | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Surry | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 2:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Middlesex, New Kent | 118 min |
| Sep 16, 2:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Mathews | 118 min |
| Sep 16, 2:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Lancaster | 118 min |
| Sep 16, 3:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Prince George | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Emporia | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | James City, York, City of Williamsburg | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, Henrico, King William, New Kent | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Middlesex | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Richmond | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Hopewell | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Isle of Wight, Surry | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Franklin | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Mathews | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Greensville, City of Emporia | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, James City, New Kent, Prince George and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | York, City of Williamsburg | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Franklin | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Richmond | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, King William | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Hopewell | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Essex, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, Middlesex | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | James City, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson, City of Williamsburg | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, Middlesex | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | King William, New Kent | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | James City, King and Queen | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 8:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gates | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 3:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Perquimans | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bladen | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 3 hr |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.