Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2004, 3:23 PM EDT for Caroline County, Virginia. It was in force for 22 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 8, 2004, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Caroline County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 081923 TORAKQ VAC033-081945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 323 PM EDT WED SEP 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CAROLINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 321 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BOWLING GREEN...OR ABOUT OVER BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... VILLBORO...WOODFORD AND FORT A.P. HILL BY 330 PM EDT... RAPPAHANNOCK ACADEMY AND GUINEA BY 335 PM EDT... CORBIN BY 340 PM EDT... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. 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 3797 7745 3798 7723 3837 7722 3837 7750 $$ CULLEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 9:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, City of Emporia | 29 min |
| Sep 8, 10:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 12 min |
| Sep 8, 10:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 15 min |
| Sep 8, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | King William | 25 min |
| Sep 8, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 22 min |
| Sep 8, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Nottoway | 22 min |
| Sep 8, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 28 min |
| Sep 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia | 15 min |
| Sep 8, 5:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 35 min |
| Sep 8, 6:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield | 16 min |
| Sep 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Powhatan | 34 min |
| Sep 8, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 7:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hanover, Henrico | 37 min |
| Sep 8, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 35 min |
| Sep 8, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 33 min |
Nearby
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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.