Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2006, 3:53 PM EDT for Bertie County, Chowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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
- May 26, 2006, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2006, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bertie County, NC, Chowan County, NC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 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 May 25, 6:08 PM EDT, 21 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:08 PM EDT, 21 hours 45 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 63 min | |
| May 26, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 41 min | |
| May 26, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min | |
| May 26, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 46 min | |
| May 26, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George, Surry, Sussex | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Perquimans | 30 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank | 31 min |
| May 26, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 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.