Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2003, 3:09 PM EDT for Amelia County, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was in force for 31 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
- May 9, 2003, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2003, 3:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Amelia County, VA, Powhatan County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KAKQ 091909 TORAKQ VAC007-145-091940- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 309 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... AMELIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA POWHATAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 340 PM EDT * AT 309 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF TRENTON MILLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL REACH... TRENTS MILL AND BEAR CREEK LAKE STATE PAR AROUND 310 PM OAK FOREST AND ASHBY AROUND 315 PM SUNNYSIDE AND CLINTON AROUND 320 PM TOBACCOVILLE AND MORVEN AROUND 325 PM LODORE AND TRUXILLO AROUND 330 PM WINTERHAM AND AMELIA COURTHOUSE AROUND 335 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 3769 7822 3756 7838 3717 7789 3733 7770 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 25 min |
| May 9, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Cumberland | 32 min |
| May 9, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Dinwiddie | 38 min |
| May 9, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 31 min |
| May 9, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Nottoway | 18 min |
| May 9, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex | 38 min |
| May 9, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Nottoway | 40 min |
| May 9, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 38 min |
| May 9, 4:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 24 min |
| May 9, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 29 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.