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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 6, 2002Lancaster County, Mathews County, Northumberland County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 5:55 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Mathews County, Northumberland 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: Jun 6, 2002, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2002, 6:25 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Northumberland County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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, 6:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Kilmarnock, VA	Trees and power lines down.
Jun 6, 6:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Heathsville, VA	Trees down on Route 201.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 994 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KAKQ 062155
SVRAKQ
VAC103-115-133-062225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
555 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LANCASTER COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA
  MATHEWS COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA
  NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 625 PM EDT

* AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MIDDLETONS CORNER
  TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARDINAL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH
  HULL NECK AND KILMARNOCK AROUND 600 PM
  CARDINAL AND BLAKES AROUND 605 PM
  HUDGINS AND MOBJACK AROUND 610 PM
  WINDMILL POINT AND MATHEWS AROUND 615 PM
  SMITH POINT AND LABAN AROUND 620 PM

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS LINE OF STORMS.

$$

GINGRICH
&&

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, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
315 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

WL NEED TO KEEP THIS SHORT AS SVR TSTMS ALREADY MOVG THRU PIEDMONT
COUNTIES. STRONG S/W MOVG THRU KY WL SPARK WIDESPREAD CNVTN...WITH
SCTD SVR STORMS...ACRS MOST CWA THRU EARLY EVE. WATCH ALREADY IN
PLACE FOR VA/MD COUNTIES.

PCPN ENDS EARLY FRI AS SFC BNDRY SLIPS S INTO NC. UPR RDG/SFC HIGH
PRES IN CONTROL THRU THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK BRINGING
DRY CONDS AND NR SEASONAL TEMPS.

FCSTID =20
SBY   61  68  55  74 /  70  10   0   0
OXB   60  67  55  70 /  70  20  10  10
ECG   70  75  62  75 /  60  30  10  10
ORF   70  75  62  75 /  60  30  10  10
PHF   64  72  58  73 /  70  20   0   0
AKQ   64  75  56  79 /  70  20   0   0
RIC   61  72  54  77 /  70  10   0   0
FVX   60  72  54  77 /  70  10   0   0

.AKQ...
MD...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM.
NC...NONE.
VA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM.

CULLEN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

MDZ021>025-VAZ048-049-060>100-070000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
400 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN
VIRGINIA...AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE...UNTIL 8 PM THIS
EVENING.

LATE THIS AFTERNOON...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH THE
EASTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT...FROM NEAR FREDERICKSBURG TO SOUTH HILL.
THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...AND
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTION
OF VIRGINIA...AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE BETWEEN 5 AND 8
PM.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL 3/4 INCH OR GREATER IN DIAMETER IN AND
CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY
ALSO ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORMS.

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WEATHER.NOAA.GOV/AKQ

CULLEN

Local storm report, Jun 6, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
407 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0250 PM    PALMYRA                   VA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/06/02   FLUVANNA                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

0330 PM    AMELIA                    VA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/06/02   AMELIA                         REPORTED BY TV
                                          WEATHERCASTER

0300 PM    CUCKOO                    VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/06/02   LOUISA                         TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE
                                          COUNTY. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

JEF

Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:03 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
503 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0250 PM    PALMYRA                   VA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/06/02   FLUVANNA                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

0330 PM    AMELIA                    VA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/06/02   AMELIA                         REPORTED BY TV
                                          WEATHERCASTER

0300 PM    CUCKOO                    VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/06/02   LOUISA                         TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE
                                          COUNTY. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

0250 PM    5 S LOUISA                VA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/06/02   LOUISA                         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY EMA

0400 PM    LUNENBURG                 VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/06/02   LUNENBURG                      NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          THROUGOUT COUNTY REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

JEF/CY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Louisa	46 min
Jun 6, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia	41 min
Jun 6, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Lunenburg	32 min
Jun 6, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Henrico	32 min
Jun 6, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Petersburg	41 min
Jun 6, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, New Kent	42 min
Jun 6, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, Middlesex, York, City of Williamsburg	43 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		50 min
Jun 6, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		40 min
Jun 6, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Nottoway	32 min
Jun 6, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		23 min
Jun 6, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		49 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.