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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 19, 2000City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 2:04 PM EDT for City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, Virginia. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 19, 2000, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 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.

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: 943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KAKQ 191805
TORAKQ
VAC710-740-191830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
204 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CITY OF NORFOLK IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA
  CITY OF PORTSMOUTH IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 204 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
  CHURCHLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR
  CHURCHLAND AT 205 PM
  NORFOLK NAS AND WILLOUGHBY SPIT AT 215 PM
  DOWNTOWN NORFOLK AND DOWNTOWN PORTSMOUTH AT 220 PM
  NORVIEW AT 225 PM
  NORFOLK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 230 PM

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

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

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	24 min
Jun 18, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	29 min
Jun 19, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Surry	16 min
Jun 19, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Newport News	16 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Newport News	35 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	35 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Hampton	35 min
Jun 19, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	35 min
Jun 19, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Sussex	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.