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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2005, 7:55 AM EST for Mecklenburg County, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 194 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
- Mar 28, 2005, 7:55 AM EST (12:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2005, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 194 days
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Currituck County, NC, Mecklenburg County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Mar 28, 5:20 AM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 5:20 AM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 535 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-291030- 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 EST MON MAR 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE EASTERN MARYLAND SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ACROSS MUCH OF THE MID ATLANTIC REGION. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. SEE SPSAKQ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY AND THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. SAMMLER
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 754 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 NCZ012>014-030-VAZ092-093-096-281330- BERTIE NC-GATES NC-HERTFORD NC-ISLE OF WIGHT VA-NORTHAMPTON NC-SOUTHAMPTON VA-SUFFOLK VA- 754 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA... AT 754 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF RICH SQUARE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF TARBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR KELFORD...AND...ROXOBEL AT 805 AM EST...EAGLETOWN AT 810 AM...AULANDER...AND...MILLENNIUM AT 815 AM EST...MENOLA...AND...SAINT JOHN AT 820 AM...MURFREESBORO AT 825 AM...MAPLETON...AND...BARRETTS CROSSROADS AT 830 AM. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVEY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 9:26 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 49 min | |
| Mar 28, 3:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach | 194 days |
| Mar 28, 3:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Cumberland, Prince Edward | 246 days |
| Mar 28, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward, Richmond | 246 days |
| Mar 28, 4:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Goochland, Hanover, Powhatan | 246 days |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 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.