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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 19, 2000Louisa County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2000, 3:33 PM EDT for Louisa County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2000, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2000, 4:05 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Louisa County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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.

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 19, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

685 
WFUS51 KAKQ 191934
TORAKQ
VAC109-192005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
333 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LOUISA COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 405 PM EDT

* AT 333 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF MINERAL...
  OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUISA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3811 7799 3798 7799 3797 7781 3808 7787

$$

SCHUMANN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Louisa	42 min
May 19, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hanover	43 min
May 19, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Fluvanna, Goochland	52 min
May 19, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hanover	43 min
May 19, 4:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Hanover	33 min
May 19, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	King William	33 min
May 19, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Powhatan	29 min
May 19, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	King William, New Kent	41 min
May 19, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	James City, City of Williamsburg	41 min
May 19, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, King and Queen	40 min
May 19, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Mathews	32 min
May 19, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia	31 min
May 19, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince Edward	31 min
May 19, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	33 min
May 19, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Nottoway	31 min
May 19, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield	28 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.