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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 3:44 PM EDT for Accomack County, Virginia. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 16, 2000, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Accomack County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 Jul 16, 3:30 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:30 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 11:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 11:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen | 33 min |
| Jul 16, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Northumberland | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Middlesex | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lancaster | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Middlesex | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2000Every 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.