Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 7:09 PM EDT for King and Queen County, King William County, Virginia. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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
- May 10, 2000, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:20 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Aylett, VA | |
| May 10, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Walkerton, VA |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KAKQ 102310 SVRAKQ VAC097-101-102340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 709 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KING AND QUEEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA KING WILLIAM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 740 PM EDT * AT 709 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF MANGOHICK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF ASHLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ENFIELD AT 710 PM EDT POLLARDS CORNER AT 715 PM EDT DUANE FORK AND BEULAHVILLE AT 720 PM EDT NEWTOWN AT 730 PM EDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENET AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ HESS
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 May 10, 1:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 1:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 159 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 CDFNT ENTERING THE WRN PDMNT NEXT CPL HRS...LTL OR NO LLVL MSTR CONVERGENCE OVR RGN AND DESPITE TEMPS REACHING 80S (AND DWPTS GENLY IN LWR 60S) CAN'T SEEM TO POP ANY CNVTN. INTERESTING...THE AREA FM NRN NJ TO SE NEW ENGLAND IN COOL MARITIME AMS...BUT HVG STRNG/SVR TSRAS (WITH SFC TEMPS ONLY IN 40S/50S)...WHL WE SIT HERE TOASTY IN WRMSCTR. DYNAMICS PASSING WELL N THE NEXT 12-15 HRS...AND SFC CDFNT SLIDES OFFSHR OVRNGT. LLVL WNDS MODERATE FM THE SW AND SHUD TREND MR WLY HELPING TO LMT CNVTV DVLPMNT. HVN'T RULED OUT SCTD TSRAS...BUT AS TM PASSES...ACTION LUKG LESS LIKELY. DON'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE 1ST PD OF FCST JUST YET...WE'LL KP AN EYE OUT FOR ANY DVLPMNT B4 ZN ISSUANCE. COMFY AMS INVADES OVRNGT BEHIND THE FNT...AND PRVDS A NICE THU. SUM HI LVL MSTR TRIES TO INVADE FM THE NW...BUT WL GO WITH SNY SKY THU. WUD THINK THAT FCST WUD BE EASY FOR FRI AS MID/UPR LVL RDG MVS TWD THE ERN CONUS. HWVR...AS RDG REACHES HIEST AMPLITUDE NR E CST LT FRI INTO SAT...WORRIED THAT THERE WL BE A STRUGGLE GETTING THE HOTTER AMS THRU ENTIRE FA (IE...ALL THE WAY TO THE DELMARVA). AVN AND TO A CERTAIN DEG THE ETA HINT AT THAT PTNTL...AND WL LEAN TWD HVG A LLVL MARITIME INFLUENCE FOR AREAS FM BAY ON E FRI AND FRI NGT. ELSW THOUGH...THE HEAT RETURNS AS THE WKND BEGINS. IT APRS NOW THAT THE ECMWF FM THE PAST FEW DAYS WAS ONTO THE RIGHT TREND...IN THAT THE UPCOMING RND HEAT DOES NOT LAST AS LONG AS THE ONE WE ARE ABT TO GET RID OF. THE TELECONNECTIONS ACRS THE NRN HEMISPHERE HV INDCTD PTNTL FOR PTRN CHG OVR ERN HALF OF CONUS...AND THE ECMWF APRS TO HV WON THIS BATTLE AGAINST THE MRF (THE MRF HASN'T DONE ALL THAT BADLY SO FAR THIS MONTH...IT WAS THE 1ST/ONLY MDL TO FCST THE EXTENT OF RECENT PD OF HEAT OVR THE E - GUESS ITS ONLY FAIR THE ECMWF WINS THIS TM ARND). IN FACT...IF TRENDS CONT...WE MAY ENJOY PLSNT WX FM SUN INTO MID NEXT WK W/O ANY RETURN OF HEAT (LIKE THE MRF HAS WANTED TO SUGG FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS). THE DN SIDE TO ALL OF THIS IS...W/O WDSPRD RA TDA AND CHCS NOT LUKG ALL THAT HI FOR LT SAT...WE MAY GO ANOTHER WK W/O SGFNT RA (SOMETHING TO KP IN THE BACK OF OUR MINDS - SHUD THESE TRENDS CONT - AS WE HEAD TWD SUMMER). FOR THE XTNDD PDS OF THE FCST (THRU SUN)...WL GO WITH A HOT DAY (MOST AREAS) SAT (WHICH CUD END WITH A LT DAY TSRA AS NEXT CDFNT PUSHES THIS WAY FM WNW)...THEN SUN AND MON DRY/MCLR AND COMFY. .AKQ...SCA CHES BAY...ATLC CST...CURRITUCK SOUND. 25
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
MDZ021-VAZ048-049-060>085-087>090-092-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 346 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 261 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE UNTIL 900 PM EDT. IN MARYLAND 1 COUNTY DORCHESTER IN VIRGINIA 33 COUNTIES AMELIA BRUNSWICK CAROLINE CHARLES CITY CHESTERFIELD INCLUDING COLONIAL HEIGHTS CUMBERLAND DINWIDDIE ESSEX FLUVANNA GLOUCESTER GOOCHLAND GREENSVILLE INCLUDING EMPORIA HANOVER HENRICO INCLUDING RICHMOND JAMES CITY INCLUDING WILLIAMSBURG KING WILLIAM KING AND QUEEN LANCASTER LOUISA LUNENBURG MECKLENBURG MIDDLESEX NEW KENT NORTHUMBERLAND NOTTOWAY POWHATAN PRINCE EDWARD PRINCE GEORGE INCLUDING PETERSBURG AND HOPEWELL RICHMOND SOUTHAMPTON INCLUDING FRANKLIN SURRY SUSSEX WESTMORELAND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOxOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TG
Local storm report, May 10, 5:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
540 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0535 PM 7 WNW LOUISA VA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/00 LOUISA
25The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 32 min |
| May 10, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland | 33 min |
| May 10, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, Middlesex | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond | 43 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.