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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2005, 9:24 AM EST for Richmond County, Westmoreland County, Virginia; 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 246 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2005, 9:24 AM EST (14:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2005, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 246 days
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chowan County, NC, Gates County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Richmond County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 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 Jan 14, 5:00 AM EST, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 5:00 AM EST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
500 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005
.SHORT TERM (TODAY)...
LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS/EMBEDDED TSTMS MOVG THRU PIEDMONT ATTM. LINE
SHOWING SOME BOWING SEGMENTS AND HAVE ISSUED TORS FOR A FEW OF THE
STRONGER CIRCULATIONS. WILL CONT TO MONITOR BUT NO SVR REPORTS
RECEIVED YET. TORN WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM.
OTHER CONCERN IS FOR FLOOD THREAT AS TRAINING CELLS DUMPING
RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR. REPORT OF A FLOODING
SECONDARY ROAD IN FLUVANNA BUT NO WIDESPREAD FLOODING REPORTED YET.
FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR I95 CORRIDOR AND WESTWARD TIL 10 AM.
PCPN AREA MOVES TO COAST THROU EARLY AFTERNOON AND MAY NEED TO
EXTEND FLOOD WATCH FOR EASTERN HALF.
&&
.LONG TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)...
DIDNT SPEND MUCH TIME ON THIS PD WITH ALL THE SHORT TERM ISSUES.
GOING FCST BASICALLY UNCHANGED.
&&
.AVIATION...
MVFR/IFR IN HEAVY RAIN IMPROVING TO VFR THIS AFTN FROM WEST TO EAST.
&&
.AKQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MD...TORNADO WATCH.
NC...FLOOD WATCH BERTIE...HERTFORD...NORTHAMPTON TIL 10 AM.
VA...FLOOD WATCH TIL 10 AM I95 CORRIDOR AND WEST. TORNADO WATCH
UNTIL 7AM.
MARINE...GALE WARNING FOR ZONE ANZ658 THROUGH SATURDAY.
...GALE WARNING FOR ZONES ANZ630>632-650-652-654-656 THURSDAY
EVENING AND TODAY.
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ZONES ANZ630>632-650-652-654-656
TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ZONE ANZ633 THROUGH SATURDAY.
&&
SHORT TERM/LONG TERM...CULLEN
AVIATION/MARINE...BROWNHazardous weather outlook, Jan 14, 5:30 AM EST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 530 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005 MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-151030- 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 EST FRI JAN 14 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE EASTERN MARYLAND SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...FLOODING RAINS AND ISOLATED TORNADOS THROUGH MIDDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. CULLEN 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
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 3:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Fluvanna, Northumberland, Prince George, Richmond | 307 days |
| Jan 14, 4:03 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Goochland, Surry | 130 days |
| Jan 14, 5:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 169 days |
| Jan 14, 5:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, James City, Mecklenburg | 219 days |
| Jan 14, 7:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk | 219 days |
| Jan 14, 8:18 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 57 min | |
| Jan 14, 8:45 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 60 min | |
| Jan 14, 9:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 247 days |
| Jan 14, 10:05 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.