Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT for Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 2, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Westmoreland County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 10:07 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Colonial Beach, VA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1012 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
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 Jun 2, 9:50 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 9:50 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDT, 4 hours before
MDZ021>025-VAZ048-049-061>064-069-071>078-083-085-030400- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 600 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA...NORTHERN NECK...AND LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE... THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM FARMVILLE TO RICHMOND AND CHINCOTEAGUE. AT 6 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY LIES ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA AND IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE HAIL. STRONG THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL VIRGINIA...NORTHERN NECK...AND LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR UPDATES ON ANY SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. HESS q
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 7:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
MDZ021>025-VAZ048-049-061>064-068>078-083-085-030400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 722 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 412 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK...AND LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN VIRGINIA... AMELIA CAROLINE CHESTERFIELD CUMBERLAND ESSEX FLUVANNA GOOCHLAND HANOVER HENRICO KING AND QUEEN KING WILLIAM LOUISA NORTHUMBERLAND POWHATAN RICHMOND WESTMORELAND INCLUDING THE INDEPENDENT CITIES OF... COLONIAL HEIGHTS RICHMOND IN MARYLAND... DORCHESTER SOMERSET WICOMICO WORCESTER INCLUDING THE MARINE AREA... ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS FROM FENWICK ISLAND TO CHINCOTEAGUE REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS OVER 60 MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. HOWEVER...DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS ARE LIKELY THE GREATEST THREAT. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND/OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS 2FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HESS/MALOIT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Westmoreland | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 51 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.