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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 27, 2000Southampton County, Sussex County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2000, 7:19 PM EDT for Southampton County, Sussex County, Virginia. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 27, 2000, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Southampton County, VA, Sussex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 27, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
230 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000

NOT MUCH CHG TO CRNT FCST PACKAGE...LKLY POPS NRN/WRN AREAS HI CHC
POPS FOR SERN AREAS AS LINE OF CNVCTN OVR WRN VA PUSHES EAST THIS
EVE. ENDING BY MIDNIGHT WRN AREAS AND LATE TONGT IN THE EAST. FRONT
STALLS JUST ALONG OUR NRN/WRN BORDERS INTO THU...WHEN TN VLY S/W
MOVES THRU AREA FINALLY KICKING IT THRU LATE THU AS XTNDD PROGS DRAW
FRNT ALONG THE COAST AT 8AM FRI. WL NOT TIME PCPN FOR THU...BUT HAVE
HIER CHC POPS S THAN N. TEMPS WL MODERATE WED/THU WITH HIGHS IN THE
LWR TO MID 80S MOST PLACES...FEW ISOLD UPR 80S PSBL SRN CWA.
XTNDD...LUKS FOR DRYING ON FRI...AND GUD WKND ON TAP AS CNTRL US
RIDGE BUILDS INTO AREA.

MARINE...KEEPING SW FLOW ACRS THE AREA THRU THU...WITH DCRG SPEEDS
ACRS THE WATERS THROUGH THE PERIOD. NO FLAGS.

.AKQ...NONE

HESS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Powhatan	43 min
Jun 27, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2000 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.