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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 21, 2004Chesterfield County, Henrico County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2004, 4:54 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, Henrico County, Virginia. It was in force for 36 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 21, 2004, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2004, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Chesterfield County, VA, Henrico County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2004-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 545 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2004-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
545 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGloucester32 min
Aug 21, 2:36 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ24 min
Aug 21, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ91 min
Aug 21, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ91 min
Aug 21, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ91 min
Aug 21, 3:49 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ56 min
Aug 21, 6:06 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ64 min
Aug 21, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ48 min
Aug 21, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.