Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2001, 6:20 PM EDT for Goochland County, Virginia. It was in force for 25 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 30, 2001, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2001, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goochland County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 6:21 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fife, VA | Trees down on Route 606. |
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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 30, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 345 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 TSRA INCREASING ACRS NW AND XTRM S AS MID LEVEL ENERGY...SEEN IN MORNING MODEL RUN COMBINING WITH MOIST UNSTBL AIRMASS. STILL SOME DIFFERENCES IN MODEL SOLUTIONS NEXT FEW DAYS WITH AVN SLOWER AND ETA LESS INTENSE WITH RAIN COVERAGE AND AMTS...SUCH HAS BEEN THE CASE ALL WEEK. TAKING A COMPROMISE IN THE SHORT TERM AND FOLLOWING SLOWER AVN INTO EXTENDED. AS A WHOLE...RAISING POPS IN THE SHORT RANGE AND GOING A LITTLE SLOWER WITH CLEARING SAT. RDG BLDING IN OVR NE SUN-THU SO A COOL DOWN IS A ABOUT DO. FCSTID = 71 SBY 71 88 69 81 / 40 40 40 30 OXB 71 88 69 80 / 30 40 40 30 ECG 74 90 73 82 / 50 50 50 40 ORF 74 91 73 82 / 50 40 50 40 PHF 74 91 73 82 / 50 40 50 40 AKQ 73 91 73 82 / 50 40 50 40 RIC 73 90 71 82 / 40 40 50 40 FVX 70 88 68 82 / 40 50 40 30 .AKQ... MD...NONE. NC...NONE. VA...NONE. SAS
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.