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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 26, 2001Goochland County, Powhatan County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 2:00 AM EDT for Goochland County, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports 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: May 26, 2001, 2:00 AM EDT (06:00 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Goochland County, VA, Powhatan County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 2:05 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Powhatan, VA
May 26, 2:14 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Goochland, VA

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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 9:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 9:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
950 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001

DISCN:
AREA OF SHRAS AND EMBEDDED TSRAS CONTINUES MOVNG NE THRU
VA MIDDLE PENINSULA/NRN NECK/ERN SHR AND LWR MD.  THIS
ACTIVITY SHUD PUSH NE OF OUR CWA BY AROUND MIDNGT.  THEN
BELIEVE FA WILL MAINLY BE IN SUBSIDENCE/NVA REGION DURING THE
REMAINDER OF THE OVRNGT HRS.  THEREFORE...WILL JUST GO
PRTLY CLDY FOR CNTRL/SRN VA AND NE NC.  A LGT SHRA MAY MOVE
IN FM THE SW OR S LATER TNGT OR TWD MORNG...BUT WILL LEAVE
POPS OUT.

WILL LIKELY HOLD OFF A LITTLE WHILE YET ON ANOTHER ZN UPDATE
AS WILL WATCH HOW FAST PCPN MOVES THRU/LEAVES E/NE CNTIES.

.AKQ...
MD...NONE.
NC...NONE.
VA...N0ONE.

GINGRICH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 8:11 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

VAZ072>078-081>094-260015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
811 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 288 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...AND IS NO LONGER
IN EFFECT FOR ALL AREAS OF VIRGINIA.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE OVER EASTERN VIRGINIA...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH
SEVERE LIMITS.  HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ARE
POSSIBLE IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING.

9$$

NS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 10:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	34 min
May 26, 11:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	James City, York, City of Williamsburg	25 min
May 26, 12:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Middlesex	30 min
May 26, 12:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Lancaster	30 min
May 26, 12:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.