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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 29, 2006Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT for Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 29, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2006, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 312 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 Jun 29, 10:53 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 10:53 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 5:52 AM EDT, 9 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
552 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ049-060-063>068-072>100-
301000-
DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES-
NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK-
BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-LOUISA-
PRINCE EDWARD-HANOVER-CAROLINE-MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-
AMELIA-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-
552 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
MARYLAND...NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST
CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND/OR LARGE HAIL WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. FOR MORE DETAILS...REFER TO
THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WBCSPSAKQ OR WWUS81 KAKQ.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER NOT ANTICIPATED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVIATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ANZ630>633-650-652-654-656-658-670-301000-
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-
CURRITUCK SOUND-
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-
552 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
CHESAPEAKE BAY...SOUTHERN CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE MID ATLANTIC
COASTAL WATERS...CURRITUCK SOUND AND THE MID ATLANTIC OFFSHORE
WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. WIND GUSTS TO 50 KNOTS...AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. MARINERS ARE URGED TO MONITOR THEIR
WEATHER RADIOS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVIATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

VAZ048-061-062-069>071-301000-
FLUVANNA-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-POWHATAN-CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO-
552 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND/OR LARGE HAIL WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. FOR MORE DETAILS...REFER TO
THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WBCSPSAKQ OR WWUS81 KAKQ.
ALSO...RIVER FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND FORECAST FOR THE JAMES
RIVER...NEAR CARTERVILLE AND RICHMOND...AND PERHAPS AT OTHER
NON-GAUGED SITES. FOR MORE DETAILS...REFER TO WBCFLSAKQ OR WGUS81 AKQ.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVIATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

DR

In the hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 10:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Caroline	2 hr
Jun 29, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		44 min
Jun 29, 4:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Mathews	115 min
Jun 29, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	38 min
Jun 29, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		61 min
Jun 29, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Westmoreland	34 min
Jun 29, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	28 min
Jun 29, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		60 min
Jun 29, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Worcester	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006 Every 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.