Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2006, 7:53 PM EDT for City of Hampton, City of Newport News, Virginia. It was in force for 22 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
- Apr 13, 2006, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 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 Apr 13, 7:51 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 7:51 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 644 AM EDT THU APR 13 2006 ANZ633-MDZ021>024-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100- 141045- CURRITUCK SOUND-DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER- NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK- BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-FLUVANNA-LOUISA- PRINCE EDWARD-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-HANOVER-CAROLINE-MECKLENBURG- LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-POWHATAN-CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO- KING WILLIAM-KING AND QUEEN-ESSEX-WESTMORELAND-RICHMOND- NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE- CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-GREENSVILLE- SUSSEX-SURRY-JAMES CITY-YORK-SOUTHAMPTON-ISLE OF WIGHT- NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE- VIRGINIA BEACH-ACCOMACK-NORTHAMPTON VA- 644 AM EDT THU APR 13 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF AN...SOUTHEAST MARYLAND...NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...NORTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... PERIODIC SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY AFFECT THE REGION AT TIMES FRIDAY INTO MONDAY. ALTHOUGH SOME MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. ANZ630>632-650-652-654-656-658-670-MDZ025-141045- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM SMITH POINT TO WINDMILL POINT VA- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM WINDMILL POINT TO NEW POINT COMFORT VA- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM NEW POINT COMFORT TO CAPE HENRY VA- COASTAL WATERS FROM FENWICK ISLAND DE TO CHINCOTEAGUE VA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CHINCOTEAGUE TO PARRAMORE ISLAND VA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PARRAMORE ISLAND TO CAPE CHARLES LIGHT VA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE CHARLES LIGHT VA TO NC VA BORDER OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM NC VA BORDER TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT NC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM FENWICK ISLAND DE TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT NC FROM 20 TO 40 NM-MARYLAND BEACHES- 644 AM EDT THU APR 13 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF AN AND SOUTHEAST MARYLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... PERIODIC SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY AFFECT THE REGION AT TIMES FRIDAY INTO MONDAY. ALTHOUGH SOME MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. WAMSLEY
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northumberland, Westmoreland | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 87 min | |
| Apr 13, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northumberland | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 35 min | |
| Apr 13, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 14 min | |
| Apr 13, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 43 min | |
| Apr 13, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 64 min | |
| Apr 13, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.