Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 4:33 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It was in force for 27 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 14, 2000, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Chase City, VA | High winds blew five to six inch diameter limbs off trees. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 Jun 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 315 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000 DISCN: 18Z MSAS/SFC OBS/SAT PIX INDICATED FRNTL BNDRY WAS STILL LAYING NR THE VA/NC BORDER (AT VA BCH) IN OUR CWA...THEN EXTNDNG WNW TO S OF AKQ THEN N OF FVX. TSRAS DEVELOPING IN HOT/HUMID AIRMASS OVR NCNTRL NC...WERE DRIFTING NNE CLS TO SW CNTIES. THESE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS. FRNT WILL LIFT SLOWLY N TNGT...BUT THINK IT WILL TAKE UNTIL SOMETIME (LATE?) THU MORNG FOR IT TO CLR OUR EXTRM NRN/NE CNTIES. SO...VA NRN NECK/LWR MD AND VA ERN SHR SHUD REMAIN MSTLY CLDY OR CLDY TNGT. CLDS OVR OUR NRN VA PIEDMONT CNTIES MAY BREAK UP THIS EVENG...BUT LWR CLDS/SOME FOG CUD REDEVELOP LATER TNGT DUE TO COMBO OF HI DWPTS AND LGT ESE WND. ALNG AND S OF THE FRNT...A 20 OR 30 POP FOR EVENG SHRA OR TSRA. OTHERWISE...PC SKY. ON THU...UA RDG MOVES OFF THE CST AND A WK COLD FRNT APPROACHES THE REGION LATE AFTN/EVENG...THEN DRIFTS ACRS AREA THU NGT INTO FRI MORNG (BEFORE WASHING OUT). SINCE LITTLE OR NO DYNAMICS...BUT SOME LIFT...SHUD BE JUST WDLY SCTD OR SCTD AIRMASS SHRAS OR TSRAS. ON FRI...WITH RISING HGTS/SFC HI PRES BLDG INLAND FM OFF THE MID-ATLC/SE CST...BELIEVE FA WILL BE PS AND HOT (AROUND 90 AND WILL LIKELY BE SOME LWR 90S. BELIEVE ANY SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION WILL BE SHUNTED WNW OF OUR CWA. BUT...WILL CARRY A 30 POP FOR AFTN TSRA IN VA/NC PIEDMONT CNTIES. .AKQ...NONE. GINGRICH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Dinwiddie | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, City of Petersburg | 28 min |
| Jun 14, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, Sussex | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, City of Franklin | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.