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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2006, 9:15 AM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 2006, 9:15 AM EDT (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2006, 9:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bertie County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 4:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 675 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KAKQ 011315 TORAKQ NCC015-011345- /O.NEW.KAKQ.TO.W.0021.060901T1315Z-060901T1345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 915 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BERTIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 945 AM EDT * AT 909 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WINDSOR... OR ABOUT OVER WINDSOR...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WHITES CROSSROADS AND MOUNT GOULD BY 925 AM EDT... WAKELON...GOOSE POND AND ROSEMEAD BY 930 AM EDT... COLERAIN AND TRAP BY 935 AM EDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR BATHROOM...CLOSET OR HALLWAY. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PLEASE SEND YOUR REPORTS OF HAIL AND/OR WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING TREES OR LARGE LIMBS DOWNED...BY CALLING NOAAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD AT...1...800...7 3 7...8 6 2 4. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA. LAT...LON 3593 7705 3589 7682 3623 7673 3623 7705 $$ BROWN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 11:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Perquimans | 25 min |
| Sep 1, 2:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 1, 6:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 1, 9:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford | 57 min |
| Sep 1, 10:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank and 1 more | 14 hr |
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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.