Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 18
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 14, 2005, 5:00 AM EST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2005, 5:00 AM EST (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2005, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Sussex County, DE, Calvert County, MD, Charles County, MD, Dorchester County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King George County, VA, King William 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, Richmond County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:02 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 5:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles | 49 min |
| Jan 14, 5:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden | 169 days |
| Jan 14, 5:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 35 min |
| Jan 14, 5:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 33 min |
| Jan 14, 5:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 219 days |
| Jan 14, 5:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 17 min |
| Jan 14, 5:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George | 47 min |
| Jan 14, 5:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Warren | 43 min |
| Jan 14, 6:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 14 min |
| Jan 14, 7:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 219 days |
| Jan 14, 9:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 246 days |
| Jan 14, 9:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 247 days |
| Jan 14, 9:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Martin | 53 days |
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 141002
SEL8
SPC WW 141000
DEZ000-MDZ000-NCZ000-VAZ000-CWZ000-141600-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 18
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
500 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN DELAWARE
SOUTHERN MARYLAND
NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
EASTERN VIRGINIA
COASTAL WATERS
EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY MORNING FROM 500 AM UNTIL 1100 AM EST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF SALISBURY MARYLAND TO 15 MILES
SOUTH OF ROCKY MOUNT NORTH CAROLINA.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 15...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 16. WATCH NUMBER 15 16 WILL
NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 500 AM EST. CONTINUE...WW 17...
DISCUSSION...VERY STRONG SHEAR PROFILES AHEAD OF INSTABILITY LINE
MOVING EWD ACROSS VA/NC. ALTHOUGH INSTABILITY IS MARGINAL...THE
SFC-1KM SHEAR OF 50 KT AND HELICITIES UPWARDS TO 500 M2/S2 WILL
CONTINUE TO SUPPORT POTENTIAL FOR LOW TOPPED TORNADIC SUPERCELLS
EMBEDDED IN THE LINE AS IT CONTINUES EWD.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 350.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23050.
...HALES
384,0741 353,0763 353,0790 384,0764SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 1:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sussex | 5 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:36 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, New Castle | 114 min |
| Jan 14, 4:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sussex | 90 min |
| Jan 14, 7:05 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sussex | 85 min |
| Jan 13, 7:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie and 9 more | 87 min |
| Jan 13, 9:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie and 8 more | 94 min |
| Jan 13, 10:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Caswell and 27 more | 62 min |
| Jan 13, 11:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:26 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Caswell, Chatham, Columbus and 34 more | 94 min |
| Jan 14, 3:56 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Durham and 24 more | 64 min |
| Jan 14, 10:23 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craven | 67 min |
| Jan 14, 12:32 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Brunswick and 42 more | 88 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.