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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 14, 2000Mathews County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2000, 7:49 PM EDT for Mathews County, Virginia. It was in force for 26 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: Jul 14, 2000, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Mathews County, VA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 8:09 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Gwynn, VA	A waterspout moved onshore on Gwynns Island. Several trees were knocked down before it dissipated.

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 nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KAKQ 142351
TORAKQ

VAC115-150015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MATHEWS COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 749 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STINGRAY POINT...STATIONARY. LAW ENFORCEMENT
  INDICATED THAT A WATERSPOUT WAS OVER THE BAY...HEADING SOUTHWARD AND MAY
  CLIP GWYNN ISLAND IN MATHEWS COUNTY

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 7:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Middlesex	27 min
Jul 14, 7:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Lancaster	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.