Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2000, 6:10 PM EDT for James City County, York County, City of Newport News, Virginia. It was in force for 35 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 19, 2000, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties City of Newport News, VA, James City County, VA, York County, VA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1005 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 19, 2:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 233 PM EDT WED JUL 19 2000 CURR: STRONG CELL IN PITTSYLVANIA CTY NEAR DANVILLE...ONLY ONE SO FAR TO BREAK THRU CAP...DOES HAVE SOME WK ROTATION. OTR...SHOWERS EXIST IN A NARROW BAND ALNG NRN VA/DELMARVA AREA. DISC: MDLS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH BRINING S/W AND MAIN ENERGY ACROSS CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. POTENTIAL STILL HIGH FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS TO DEVELOP AS S/W LOW PRES...FRNTL BNDRY AND CBREEZE BNDYRS COLLIDE. MAIN AREA OF CONCERN SEEMS TO BE OVER SRN/SERN VA AND NE NC...AND S INTO E CNTRL NC. WILL CONT CHCS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EVERYWHERE FOR TONIGHT BUT WILL REWORD TO EXTEND SRN PORTIONS ENDING AFTER MIDNIGHT. DRIER AIR WORKS IN ON THU BOTH SFC AND ALOFT ON NWERLY FLOW...SO WILL WORD MMORNING CLDS WITH AFTERNOON CLEARING. TEMPS THU INTO XTNDED EXPECTED TO REMAIN BLO CLIMO. XTND...NEXT CHC OF RA COMES FRI NIGHT INTO SAT AS S/W ASSOCIATED WITH FRNTL BNDRY SWINGS THRU FROM OH VLY...OTR PC WITH TEMPS A CAT OR TWO BLO CLIMO. CSTL WTRS...GRADIENT STILL HA SPOTENTIAL TO TIGHTEN ENOUGH TO WARRANT SCA OVER SRN PRTNS OF BAY AND WATERS. .AKQ....SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM CHES BAY S OF NEW POINT COMFORT TO CAPE HENRY...FOR CURRITUCK SOUND...AND CSTL WATERS FROM PARRAMORE ISLAND S TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT. 22
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 6:10 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ049-060-062-063-065>071-079>083-087>098- 100-200100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 610 PM EDT WED JUL 19 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR ALL SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE CHARLES LIGHT TO NC-VA BORDER AND CHESAPEAKE BAY SOUTH OF THE YORK RIVER AS WELL AS CURRITUCK SOUND NC. THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF LOCALIZED FLOODING ACROSS URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS IS LIKELY THROUGH THE NIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND/OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SCHUMANN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Prince George | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Hopewell | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Surry | 35 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.