Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2003, 7:18 AM EDT for Northumberland County, Richmond County, Virginia. 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2003, 7:18 AM EDT (11:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2003, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Northumberland County, VA, Richmond County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KAKQ 231118 TORAKQ VAC133-159-231145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 717 AM EDT TUE SEP 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICHMOND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA * UNTIL 745 AM EDT * AT 717 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER FARNHAM...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROBLEY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MIDDLETONS CORNER...AND HEATHSVILLE AROUND 725 AM EDT... HULL NECK...AND EDWARDSVILLE AROUND 730 AM EDT... OPHEILA AROUND 735 AM EDT... 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 3798 7674 3780 7669 3790 7594 3812 7599 $$ 92
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 6:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond | 29 min |
| Sep 23, 6:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 6:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | King William | 30 min |
| Sep 23, 6:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen | 30 min |
| Sep 23, 7:45 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 60 min | |
| Sep 23, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 8:26 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 64 min | |
| Sep 23, 8:26 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 64 min | |
| Sep 23, 8:42 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 33 min | |
| Sep 23, 8:42 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 33 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 min | |
| Sep 23, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 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.