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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2004, 5:54 PM EDT for City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2004, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KAKQ 142154
TORAKQ
VAC550-810-142230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
554 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CITY OF CHESAPEAKE IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 548 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MUNDEN...OR
ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CURRITUCK...MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
PRINCESS ANNE...GREENBRIER AND PUNGO BY 600 PM EDT...
GALLUPS CORNER...PRINCESS ANNE PLAZA...KEMPSVILLE AND LYNNHAVEN BY
605 PM EDT...
BAYSIDE BY 610 PM EDT...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3666 7596 3661 7599 3656 7593 3656 7621
3683 7623 3682 7622 3685 7617 3688 7621
3693 7617 3693 7599 3656 7587 3656 7589
3662 7591
$$
SIEBERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King William | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 14 min |
| Aug 14, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 15 min |
| Aug 14, 7:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 17 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.