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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 14, 2000Middlesex County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2000, 7:18 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Virginia. It was in force for 27 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 14, 2000, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Middlesex County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 422 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
422 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KAKQ 142320
TORAKQ

VAC103-119-142345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
718 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LANCASTER COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA
  MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 718 PM EDT...A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED AT A MARINA NEAR DELTAVILLE.
  THIS WATERSPOUT WAS REMAINING CLOSE TO SHORE.

* THE TORNADO IS REMAIN NEAR DELTAVILLE AND NEARBY POINTS OF THE SHORELINE
  AND THE BAY

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

$$

REILLY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 7:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQLancaster27 min
Jul 14, 7:49 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQMathews26 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.