Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2000, 4:05 PM EDT for Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 17, 2000, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2000, 4:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dinwiddie County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 4:20 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Mc Kenney, VA | F1 Tornado downed numerous trees along a 3/4 mile path in a wooded area NW of Mc Kenney. Report obtained frmo local resident. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
960 WFUS51 KAKQ 172006 TORAKQ VAC053-172035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 405 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DINWIDDIE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 435 PM EDT * AT 405 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARVILLS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLACKSTONE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR DARVILLS AT 425 PM EDT MCKENNEY AT 430 PM EDT ROCKY RUN AT 435 PM EDT GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ SIEBERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 11:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Goochland, Powhatan | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 11:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 39 min |
| Apr 17, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, City of Petersburg | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Colonial Heights | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince Edward | 25 min |
| Apr 17, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Nottoway | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, New Kent | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, City of Franklin | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Franklin | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 31 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.