Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 6:29 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 27, 2000, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bertie County, NC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 350 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 OTHER THAN TOR WATCH...TAKEN PREVIOUS FCST AND BOOSTED POPS SLIGHTLY NEXT 2 PDS ACRS MOST OF CWA. CONVECTIVE THREAT TNGT THRU SUN WL RMN ON BNDRY AS IT SETTLE OR WAFFLES ABT. ETA/AVN LOOK IN AGREEMENT WITH BNDRY ACRS SE VA SUN AND AS TROF DYNAMICS COME INTO PICTURE SUN AFTN...ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY LOOKS LIKELY. TEMPS WL BE TROUBLE THU TUES AS COOLER AIRMASS N OF BNDRY RMNS EVER PRESENT. CLDS AND OR PRECIP ALONE WILL MAKE FOR COOL CONDITIONS MOST SPOTS ANYWAY. WITH THAT...RAISED POPS...LOWERED SOME HIGHS. EXTENDED LOOKED OK SO MADE ONLY SLIGHT CHG THERE. CWF...NO FLAGS ATTM. MADE CHGS TO SEAS. .AKQ...NONE SAS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 2:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
NCZ012-VAZ060-065>067-079-080-087-088-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 242 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 376 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... VA-VIRGINIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE DINWIDDIE GREENVILLE LUNENBURG MECKLENBURG NOTTOWAY PRINCE EDWARD SUSSEX VA-VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT CITIES INCLUDED ARE EMPORIA NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE NORTHAMPTON .SKYWARN SPOTTERS... SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA NOW THROUGH 9 PM THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT THREATENING WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND/OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SCHUMANN
Special weather statement, May 27, 2:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
NCZ012-VAZ060-065>067-079-080-087-088-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD BRUNSWICK COUNTY VA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 242 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 376 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... VA-VIRGINIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE DINWIDDIE GREENVILLE LUNENBURG MECKLENBURG NOTTOWAY PRINCE EDWARD SUSSEX VA-VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT CITIES INCLUDED EMPORIA NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE NORTHAMPTON .SKYWARN SPOTTERS... SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA NOW THROUGH 9 PM THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT THREATENING WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND/OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SCHUMANN
Special weather statement, May 27, 3:14 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
NCZ012-VAZ060-065>067-079-080-087-088-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD BRUNSWICK COUNTY VA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 242 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 376 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... VA-VIRGINIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BRUNSWICK DINWIDDIE GREENVILLE LUNENBURG MECKLENBURG NOTTOWAY PRINCE EDWARD SUSSEX VA-VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT CITY INCLUDED IS EMPORIA NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY INCLUDED IS NORTHAMPTON .SKYWARN SPOTTERS... SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA NOW THROUGH 9 PM THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT THREATENING WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND/OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SCHUMANN
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 29 min |
| May 27, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex, City of Emporia | 31 min |
| May 27, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 25 min |
| May 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, City of Franklin | 31 min |
| May 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville | 31 min |
| May 27, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 30 min |
| May 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 31 min |
| May 27, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.