Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Wakefield, VA

Issued

Jul 16, 2000, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)

Expired

Jul 16, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS Wakefield, VA

Area

Whole counties

County Hanover County, VA

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS51 KAKQ 161700
SVRAKQ
VAC085-161730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
100 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HANOVER COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATLEE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
  STUDLEY AND WESTWOOD AT 130 PM

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES.
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR.
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

$$

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NWS Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 9:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
945 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

DSCN:
ECHO ACTIVITY (ASSCTD WITH S/W MOVG ALONG SFC TROF) CONTS TO
PULSE UP & DOWN PAST FEW HRS WITH MORE LTG DVLPNG OVR NRN NECK
ATTM. SPC HAS SERN 2/3RDS OF FA (MAINLY E OF I95) OUTLOOKED IN
SLGT RISK. WEAK CAP...MSTR CONVERGENCE ALONG SFC TROF / C-BREEZE
...CAPES OVR 2000 J/KG SHUD COMBINE WITH AFTRN HTNG TO PRODUCE
SCT SHRA/TSRA. MAY BEEF UP WORDING IN SERN ZONES. QUICK CHECK
PUTS VIL OF THE DAY IN THE L50S. AM SNDGS SPRT MAX TMPS IN THE
L-M80S....SOMEWHAT COOLER ALONG THE BEACHES.

CWF...NO FLAGS. S WNDS INCRG 10-15KT THIS AFTRN.

.AKQ...NONE.

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In the hours before

MDZ021>023-161219-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
719 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM THE CENTRAL PART OF THE
CHESAPEAKE BAY INTO PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN DORCHESTER...WESTERN
WICOMICO AND WESTERN SOMERSET COUNTIES THROUGH 820 AM. THE STORMS
WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE GENERALLY 3/4 TO 1 INCH. WIND GUSTS TO 35
OR 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.