Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 458
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT for Charles County, Maryland; 51 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Charles County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Fredericksburg, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greene County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, King George County, VA, King William County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Madison County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nelson County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Orange County, VA, Page County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Stafford County, VA, Sussex County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 17 min |
| Jun 15, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover, King William | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, Middlesex, Westmoreland | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King William | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Garrett | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 40 more | 6 hr |
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.