Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 303
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT for 19 counties in North Carolina; 29 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Charles City County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 29 min |
| May 26, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 26 min |
| May 26, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 35 min |
| May 26, 10:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 42 min |
| May 26, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 45 min |
| May 26, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 39 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Polk, Transylvania and 1 more | 65 min |
| May 26, 11:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans and 2 more | 54 min |
| May 27, 3:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell and 6 more | 92 min |
| May 26, 8:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amelia, Arlington, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Charlotte and 33 more | 116 min |
| May 27, 3:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Buckingham, Caroline, Clarke and 42 more | 113 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.