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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2005, 3:39 PM EDT for Nottoway 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
- May 15, 2005, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nottoway County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 15, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 530 AM EDT SUN MAY 15 2005 ANZ630>632-650-652-654-656-658- MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-161030- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM SMITH POINT TO WINDMILL POINT- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM WINDMILL POINT TO NEW POINT COMFORT- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM NEW POINT COMFORT TO CAPE HENRY- COASTAL WATERS FROM FENWICK ISLAND TO CHINCOTEAGUE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CHINCOTEAGUE TO PARRAMORE ISLAND OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PARRAMORE ISLAND TO CAPE CHARLES LIGHT OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE CHARLES LIGHT TO NC-VA BORDER OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM NC-VA BORDER TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT OUT 20 NM- ACCOMACK VA-AMELIA VA-BERTIE NC-BRUNSWICK VA-CAMDEN NC-CAROLINE VA- CHARLES CITY VA-CHESAPEAKE VA-CHESTERFIELD VA-CHOWAN NC- CUMBERLAND VA-DINWIDDIE VA-DORCHESTER MD-EASTERN CURRITUCK NC- ESSEX VA-FLUVANNA VA-GATES NC-GLOUCESTER VA-GOOCHLAND VA- GREENSVILLE VA-HANOVER VA-HENRICO VA-HERTFORD NC-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- NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH VA-NORTHAMPTON VA-NORTHAMPTON NC- NORTHUMBERLAND VA-NOTTOWAY VA-PASQUOTANK NC-PERQUIMANS NC- POWHATAN VA-PRINCE EDWARD VA-PRINCE GEORGE VA-RICHMOND VA- SOMERSET MD-SOUTHAMPTON VA-SUFFOLK VA-SURRY VA-SUSSEX VA- VIRGINIA BEACH VA-WESTERN CURRITUCK NC-WESTMORELAND VA-WICOMICO MD- YORK VA- 530 AM EDT SUN MAY 15 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE EASTERN MARYLAND SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS BY THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...PRIMARILY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROWN THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN WAKEFIELD, VA CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.ERH.NOAA.GOV/AKQ.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 15, 2:42 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 242 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 2005 VAZ084>086-151930- GLOUCESTER VA-MATHEWS VA-MIDDLESEX VA- 242 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE MIDDLE PENINSULA... AT 242 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER GLOUCESTER COURTHOUSE...MOVING NORTH EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR WARE NECK AT 250 PM EDT...BEULAH AT 255 PM EDT...FORT NONSENSE AT 300 PM EDT...CARDINAL AT 305 PM EDT...PORT HAYWOOD AT 310 PM EDT...MOON AT 315 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. FOSTER
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:00 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 days | |
| May 15, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 25 min |
| May 15, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 44 min |
| May 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George, City of Hopewell | 43 min |
| May 15, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City | 29 min |
| May 15, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City | 24 min |
| May 15, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 66 days | |
| May 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 24 min |
| May 15, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 71 days | |
| May 15, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 31 min |
| May 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 71 days | |
| May 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 30 min |
| May 15, 7:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 73 days | |
| May 15, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 73 days | |
| May 15, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 73 days | |
| May 15, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 29 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.