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Tornado Watch 619

July 7, 200520 counties in North Carolina; 30 counties in Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 7, 2005, 2:05 PM EDT for 20 counties in North Carolina; 30 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2005, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2005, 9:35 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties

Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Amelia 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 Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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

11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 4:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHVance19 min
Jul 7, 4:55 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQMecklenburg65 min
Jul 7, 5:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQMecklenburg3 hr
Jul 7, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick48 min
Jul 7, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWarren27 min
Jul 7, 6:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQBrunswick3 hr
Jul 7, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBrunswick33 min
Jul 7, 7:57 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGreensville17 min
Jul 7, 8:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQCity of Petersburg113 min
Jul 7, 9:03 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQNottoway27 min
Jul 7, 9:33 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia42 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 279 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 1:47 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Clay, Macon, Polk, Transylvania28 min
Jul 7, 3:10 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCCabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston, Henderson and 8 more6 hr
Jul 7, 5:44 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie and 10 more91 min
Jul 7, 8:43 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlamance, Alexander, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 33 more32 min
Jul 7, 9:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Caswell and 27 more7 hr
Jul 7, 12:33 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Burke, Caldwell, Caswell, Catawba, Cleveland and 15 more117 min
Jul 7, 1:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBertie, Chowan, Dare, Edgecombe, Halifax, Hertford and 8 more88 min
Jul 7, 3:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Davie and 17 more6 hr
Jul 7, 4:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHalifax, Northampton118 min
Jul 7, 6:01 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBertie, Camden, Chatham, Chowan, Currituck, Dare and 20 more59 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.