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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2006, 3:01 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Virginia. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 3, 2006, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2006, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cumberland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 Jul 3, 11:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 11:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 557 AM EDT MON JUL 3 2006 ANZ630>633-650-652-654-656-658-670-MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032- 102-VAZ048-049-060>100-041000- 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-DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER- MARYLAND BEACHES-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- 557 AM EDT MON JUL 3 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS SOUTHEAST MARYLAND...NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS TODAY WILL CAUSE HEAT INDICES TO CLIMB BETWEEN 100 AND 105 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON... HIGHEST AWAY FROM THE COASTS. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED BY LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... CONTINUED HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON INDEPENDENCE DAY...WITH HEAT INDICES AGAIN BETWEEN 100 AND 105 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY. THREATS WILL INCLUDE SEVERE WIND GUSTS... LARGE HAIL...AND FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON WEDNESDAY. HURLEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 10:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 56 min | |
| Jul 3, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 65 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.