Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 395
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 6, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Calvert County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Dorchester County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Accomack County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Charles City County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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.
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's | 78 min |
| Jun 6, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 66 min |
| Jun 6, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Calvert | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 4:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Talbot | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 42 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, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, New Kent | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 40 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, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Mathews, Northumberland | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 6:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 111 min |
| Jun 6, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 40 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Frederick and 7 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Maryland, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Jersey, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002
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.