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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 13, 2005Middlesex County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2005, 12:19 AM EDT for Middlesex County, Virginia. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 13, 2005, 12:19 AM EDT (04:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2005, 12:46 AM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Middlesex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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 Jul 12, 9:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 9:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 5:35 AM EDT, 18 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
535 AM EDT TUE JUL 12 2005

ANZ630>632-650-652-654-656-658-
MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-131030-
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-
535 AM EDT TUE JUL 12 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA...
NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE EASTERN MARYLAND SHORE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY...
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MAY
CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING.
OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MAY
CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING ON
WEDNESDAY. OTHERWISE...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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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 11:30 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1130 PM EDT TUE JUL 12 2005

VAZ064-072>076-078-085-130445-
CAROLINE VA-ESSEX VA-KING AND QUEEN VA-KING WILLIAM VA-LANCASTER
VA-MIDDLESEX VA-RICHMOND VA-WESTMORELAND VA-
1130 PM EDT TUE JUL 12 2005

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND INTENSE LIGHTNING MOVING
INTO THE NORTHERN NECK AND MIDDLE PENINSULA...

AT 1128 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLONIAL BEACH TO
KING AND QUEEN COURTHOUSE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE NEAR...KING AND QUEEN COURTHOUSE AROUND 1140 PM EDT...
CHAMPLAIN AROUND 1145 PM EDT...TAPPAHANNOCK AROUND 1215 AM EDT...
COLONIAL BEACH AROUND 1220 AM EDT...AND MONTROSS AROUND 1245 AM EDT.
EXPECT VIVID INTENSE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IN THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL CAUSE PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS.

CULLEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 4:38 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	82 min
Jul 13, 8:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	85 min
Jul 13, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Surry	33 min
Jul 13, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hanover	24 min
Jul 13, 6:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Nottoway	22 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2005 Every 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.