Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2003, 10:50 AM EDT for Hanover County, Virginia. It was in force for 45 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
- May 10, 2003, 10:50 AM EDT (14:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 11:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hanover County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:50 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 May 10, 9:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 9:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 5:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-101600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 530 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEE SPSAKQ AND SWODY1 FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEE SWODY2 FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 33 THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN WAKEFIELD, VA CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.ERH.NOAA.GOV/AKQ.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:38 AM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-101630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 538 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .THREAT AREA...EASTERN MARYLAND...EASTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. TIME OF SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...FROM MIDDAY ON. .SYNOPSIS...AN AREA OF CONVECTION OVER THE MIDWEST THIS MORNING...WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE THREAT AREA THIS AFTERNOON...THEN CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE ALONG AND NEAR A STATIONARY FRONT WHICH STRECTCHES FROM WESTERN TIDEWATER VIRGINIA...TO JUST WEST OF RICHMOND...TO JUST WEST OF CHARLOTTESVILLE. THIS FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLIGHTLY TO THE NORTH AND EAST THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE SLIGHTLY NORTH AND EAST OF WHERE IT TRACKED YESTERDAY. THIS MAKES THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA PIEDMONT...RICHMOND AND THE TRI CITIES...WESTERN TIDEWATER VIRGINIA...AND WESTERN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AS AREAS HAVING THE HIGHEST POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN AREAS NOT IN THE PATH OF THE AREA OF CONVECTION MOVING IN FROM THE MIDWEST...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...COUPLED WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM 75 TO 85 AT MOST LOCATIONS...SHOULD SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION...SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .MAIN WEATHER THREATS... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... LARGE HAIL ONE INCH OR GREATER IN DIAMETER... IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...MAINLY IN URBAN AREAS AND IN LOW LYING LOCATIONS NEAR RIVERS AND STREAMS. MALOIT
Local storm report, May 10, 7:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
0752 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0453 PM DREWRYVILLE VA 0 MPH WIND GUST
05/09/03 SOUTHAMPTON WIND GUST TO 75 MPH. 1.5
INCH HAIL COVERING GROUND.
0453 PM DREWRYVILLE VA 75 MPH WIND GUST
05/09/03 SOUTHAMPTON
0453 PM 9 N NOTTOWAY VA WIND DAMAGE
05/09/03 AMELIA ROOF BLOWN OFF ROCKY HILL
CHURCH ON RT 153. NUMEROUS
TREES DOWN.
0445 PM JARRATT VA 4.25 IN HAIL
05/09/03 SUSSEX SOFTBALL HAIL REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT. NUMEROUS
TREES AND POWERLINE DOWN
ACROSS I95. RAILROAD
SHUTDOWN DUE TO DEBRIS ON
TRACK.
0415 PM DEWITT VA 2.75 IN HAIL
05/09/03 DINWIDDIE GOLF TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
UP TO 4 INCHES IN
DEPTH...HAIL DAMAGE TO
SEVERAL BUILDINGS NEAR
INTERSECTION US 1 AND VA
650
0415 PM DEWITT VA 70 MPH TSTORM WIND
05/09/03 DINWIDDIE PART OF TIN ROOF RIPPED OF
HOME...LARGE BRANCHES
DOWN...WINDOWS BLOWN
OUT...RESIDENTS NOTED
HORIZONTAL HAIL
0413 PM 2 NE DEWITT VA 80 MPH TSTORM WIND
05/09/03 DINWIDDIE LARGE OAK TREE DOWN ALONG
US 1
0410 PM DINWIDDIE VA 1.75 IN HAIL
05/09/03 DINWIDDIE HAIL DEPTH 1 TO 4
INCHES...NUMEROUS BUILDINGS
WITH HAIL DAMAGE ALONG US
1.
0400 PM FORD VA 1.25 IN HAIL
05/09/03 DINWIDDIE HAIL DEPTH 1 TO 2 INCHES
PFMSpecial weather statement, May 10, 8:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
VAZ048-049-062-063-071-072-101315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 813 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL VIRGINIA... AT 813 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR PALMYRA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH... KENTS STORE AND FERNCLIFF AROUND 815 AM TABSCOTT AND CALEDONIA AROUND 820 AM HADENSVILLE AND OTHMA AROUND 825 AM ORCHID AND GUM SPRING AROUND 830 AM LOCUST CREEK AROUND 835 AM VONTAY AND DABNEYS AROUND 840 AM RICHMOND AND HANOVER AROUND 9 AM EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN WATER ON ROADWAYS AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. NS && LAT...LON 3799 7827 3782 7834 3750 7716 3776 7706
Special weather statement, May 10, 9:18 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
VAZ072>074-076>078-083>086-101415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 918 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO KING WILLIAM COUNTY... AT 918 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUMFORD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... HENLEY FORK AND WALKERTON AROUND 920 AM BRUINGTON AND MILLERS TAVERN AROUND 925 AM STEVENSVILLE AND CROUCH AROUND 930 AM INO AND UPRIGHT AROUND 935 AM DRAGONVILLE AND MONTAGUE AROUND 940 AM JAMAICA AND VELMA AROUND 945 AM EXPECT FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. RAINFALL RATES OF 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. 92 && LAT...LON 3796 7696 3757 7724 3737 7627 3791 7622
Local storm report, May 10, 10:04 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1004 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM CUMBERLAND VA WIND DAMAGE
05/09/03 CUMBERLAND SEVERAL LARGE TREES ON A
HOME AND NUMEROUS TREES
UPROOTED
0330 PM CUMBERLAND VA WIND DAMAGE
05/09/03 CUMBERLAND SEVERAL 100 YEAR OLD TREES
UPROOTED
0230 PM 5 E SCOTTSVILLE VA WIND DAMAGE
05/09/03 FLUVANNA TWO 100 YEAR OLD OAKS DOWN
JABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 28 min |
| May 10, 12:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 21 min |
| May 10, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.