Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2001, 5:28 PM EDT for Henrico County, City of Richmond, Virginia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 6, 2001, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties City of Richmond, VA, Henrico County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Short Pump, VA | Trees down. |
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 6, 3:28 PM EDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:28 PM EDT, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 328 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 LATEST RADAR COMPOSITES SHOWING LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS ASSOC WITH WEAK VORT MAX NOW MOVING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. WITH AIRMASS BEING UNSTABLE DOWNSTREAM...DONT SEE ANY REASON THIS ACTIVITY WONT MOVE FROM W TO E ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. WALLOPS FZL OVER 14000 FT...SO WILL BE HARD TO GET HAIL. VIL OF DAY 60 OR SO. ALSO...NOT MUCH WIND OR WIND SHEAR IN SOUNDING...BUT STILL COULD SEE ISOLD PULSE SEVERE. FRONTAL WAVE TO PASS E OF AREA BY TOMORROW...AND FRONT DROPS S BACK DOOR STYLE. LOOKING FOR CHC SHOWERS EARLY N...THEN CLEARING...BUT WITH CHC SHOWERS AND STORMS ALL DAY S...WITH PARTIAL CLEARING THU NIGHT. AM GOING WITH A DRY FORECAST FRI THRU SUN...ALTHOUGH THIS WILL DEPEND ON WHERE FRONT HANGS UP. AT THIS POINT...AM CONTINUING WITH A DRY FCAST...AS THINK THE FRONT WILL STALL OUT FAR ENUF S TO KEEP PRECIP SOUTH OF AREA...INCLUDING ANY PRECIP ASSOC WITH REMANTS OF ALLISON...WHICH WILL LIKELY EVENTUALLY LIFT N AND E ALONG THE STALLED OUT FRONT. WILL GO WITH CHC OF SHOWERS FOR MON...AS NRN STREAM CLIPPER SYSTEM DROPS SOUTHEAST...ALTHOUGH NOT EXPECTING MUCH WITH THIS SYSTEM. DRY FOR REMAINDER OF EXTENDED. FCSTID = 18 SBY 63 77 56 79 / 50 30 10 0 OXB 63 73 56 73 / 50 30 10 0 ECG 70 78 62 78 / 40 40 20 10 ORF 70 78 62 78 / 40 40 20 10 PHF 69 80 60 79 / 50 40 10 10 AKQ 69 80 60 79 / 50 40 10 10 RIC 67 78 58 78 / 50 30 10 0 FVX 69 80 60 79 / 50 40 10 10 .AKQ... MD...NONE. NC...NONE. VA...NONE. REILLY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 6, 12:22 PM EDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
1222 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM VICTORIA VA WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01 LUNENBURG 4 DOWNED TREES SCATTERED
ABOUT COUNTY
0850 PM CHASE CITY VA WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01 MECKLENBURG TREE DOWN
0900 PM SOUTH HILL VA WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01 MECKLENBURG TREE DOWNLocal storm report, Jun 6, 5:15 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
515 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
05{05 PM HENRICO VA .75 HAIL
06/06/01 INNSBRUCK DIME HAILThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Henrico, City of Richmond | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Henrico | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George, City of Hopewell | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.