Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2001, 2:10 PM EDT for Fluvanna County, Goochland County, Virginia. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 27, 2001, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hadensville, VA | Four large trees down on road. |
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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 Aug 27, 10:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 10:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Middlesex | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, York, City of Williamsburg | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Goochland | 35 min |
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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.