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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2004, 7:38 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Virginia. It was in force for 37 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
- Jul 1, 2004, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cumberland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 1, 3:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 303 PM EDT THU JUL 1 2004 .SYNOPSIS...JULY TO START OFF THE WAY JUNE ENDED...WRM & HUMID WITH SCT DIURNAL CONVECTION. BERMUDA RIDGE TO BECOME MAIN WX PLAYER THRU NXT WEEK. BEST CHC FOR POPS APPEARS TO BE SUN THEN AGAIN TUE AS NEXT BNDRY MEANDERS ARND RGN. && .SHORT TERM...MODELS DIFFERING ONCE AGAIN WRT FIRST PRD. ETA GENERATES ANTHR AREA OF PCPN ACROSS PIEDMONT BY 06Z WHILE GFS HAS SUBSIDENCE. WILL LEAN TOWARD GFS HERE...SINCE IT HAS BEEN VERIFYING THE BEST LATELY. CRNT ECHOES ALONG COAST DUE TO CONVERGENCE ALONG SEA BREEZE. PRETTY DECENT CELL ATTM JUST SE OF KORF. THESE CELLS SHUD DSPT AS HTNG IS LOST. GREATER CHC FOR TSRA WILL BE NORTH OF I64 AND W OF CHES BAY AS JET STREAK APPRCHS FROM KY/TN RGN. THIS FTR IS OUT AHEAD OF DSTPG BNDRY NOW LCTD ACROSS NRN NC. AREA ALRDY IN SLGT RISK...THUS WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS THERE. ELSEWHERE...NOT MUCH OF A TRIGGER TO CONT TSRA MUCH AFTR SS. BERMUDA RIDGE ESTABLISHES ITSELF INTO HOLIDAY WKEND WITH NOT MUCH SPRT FOR POPS XPCT FOR DYTME HTNG. WILL CONT LOW CHC POPS THRU SAT. && .LONG TERM...BEST DAY FOR MORE ORGANIZED PCPN WILL BE SUN WHEN NEXT BNDRY APPRCHS FROM NW. SAID BNDRY LIFTS BACK N OF RGN BY MON PUTTING FA BACK INTO A PTRN MUCH LIKE TDY. BNDRY THEN TRIES TO MAKE ANTHR RUN AT US COME TUE IN RESPONSE TO LOW MOVG ACROSS THE N. OTW...GRIDS WILL SHOW AOB CLIMO POPS FOR MID SUMMER. && .AVIATION... THINK MVFR IN FOG LATE TONIGHT...PERHAPS IFR IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE RAIN. CONDITIONS BRIEFLY REDUCED AT TSTRMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. && .MARINE... SEAS STILL RUNNING AROUND 2 FT AT THE BUOYS...AND NOTHING IN FCAST WINDS OF WAVEWATCH TO INDICATE MUCH CHANGE IN CONDITIONS THROUGH SAT. WILL HAVE AN INCREASE IN WINDS AND SEAS AHD OF FRONT SUN AFTERNOON INTO MON...AND MAY APPROACH SCA...BUT FOR NOW WITH OFFSHORE COMPONENT...WAVEWATCH SUGGESTING PROBABLY 4 FT COASTAL WATERS... HIGHER OFFSHORE. && .AKQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. VA...NONE. NC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SBY 87 66 87 64 / 30 30 30 30 OXB 83 68 83 68 / 30 30 30 30 WAL 85 70 86 69 / 30 30 30 30 FVX 89 69 90 69 / 40 40 30 30 RIC 88 69 88 70 / 40 40 30 30 PTB 89 69 90 70 / 40 40 30 30 AKQ 88 69 90 70 / 30 30 30 30 PHF 87 70 86 72 / 30 30 30 30 ORF 86 72 86 72 / 30 30 30 30 ECG 87 71 86 71 / 30 30 30 30 && 44/18
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 1:20 PM EDT, 6 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 120 PM EDT THU JUL 1 2004 MDZ021>025-VAZ048-049-060>094-096>100-041100- ACCOMACK VA-AMELIA VA-BRUNSWICK VA-CAROLINE VA-CHARLES CITY VA- CHESAPEAKE VA-CHESTERFIELD VA-CUMBERLAND VA-DINWIDDIE VA- DORCHESTER MD-ESSEX VA-FLUVANNA VA-GLOUCESTER VA-GOOCHLAND VA- GREENSVILLE VA-HANOVER VA-HENRICO VA-INLAND WORCESTER MD- ISLE OF WIGHT VA-JAMES CITY VA-KING AND QUEEN VA-KING WILLIAM VA- LANCASTER VA-LOUISA VA-LUNENBURG VA-MARYLAND BEACHES MD-MATHEWS VA- MECKLENBURG VA-MIDDLESEX VA-NEW KENT VA-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON VA- NORTHAMPTON VA-NORTHUMBERLAND VA-NOTTOWAY VA-POWHATAN VA- PRINCE EDWARD VA-PRINCE GEORGE VA-RICHMOND VA-SOMERSET MD- SOUTHAMPTON VA-SUFFOLK VA-SURRY VA-SUSSEX VA-VIRGINIA BEACH VA- WESTMORELAND VA-WICOMICO MD-YORK VA- 120 PM EDT THU JUL 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY NORTH OF I64. SEE SPSAKQ FOR MORE INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NCZ012>017-030>032-102-041100- BERTIE NC-CAMDEN NC-CHOWAN NC-EASTERN CURRITUCK NC-GATES NC- HERTFORD NC-NORTHAMPTON NC-PASQUOTANK NC-PERQUIMANS NC- WESTERN CURRITUCK NC- 120 PM EDT THU JUL 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... 44
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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.