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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 20, 2002Pasquotank County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 20, 2002, 3:43 PM EDT for Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 2002, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 2002, 4:10 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Pasquotank County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1909 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1909 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

199 
WFUS51 KAKQ 201943
TORAKQ
NCC139-202010-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
342 PM EDT TUE AUG 20 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PASQUOTANK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 410 PM EDT

* AT 342 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF
  SYMONDS CREEK...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL REACH...
  BOB WHITE FORK AND SYMONDS CREEK AROUND 345 PM
  LISTERS CORNER AND FROG ISLAND AROUND 400 PM
  WADE POINT AROUND 405 PM


TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER.

$$
LAT...LON 3631 7615 3625 7636 3594 7625 3601 7599

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.