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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 27, 2000Sussex County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 9:08 PM EDT for Sussex County, Virginia. It was in force for 37 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, 9:08 PM EDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sussex County, VA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 550 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
331 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
6.6

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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, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 18 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, 3:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 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
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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.