Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2007, 3:15 PM EDT for Caroline County, Virginia. It was in force for 60 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 2, 2007, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Caroline County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 2, 1:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 1:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:53 AM EDT, 10 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 453 AM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-030900- 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- 453 AM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND...COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS VIRGINIA...THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA...THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE IN STRONGER STORMS. SOME ISOLATED STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF A LUNENBURG...DINWIDDIE...EXMORE LINE. HAIL UP TO NICKLE SIZE AND WINDS UP TO 60 MPH WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES MAY LEAD TO PONDING ON ROADWAYS (ESPECIALLY AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLASH FLOODING). .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED ON A WIDESPREAD BASIS...BUT REPORTS TO OUR OFFICE OF ANY HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND THAT DO OCCUR WILL BE APPRECIATED. ANZ630>633-650-652-654-656-658-030900- 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- 453 AM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE SOUTHERN CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE MID ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS AND CURRITUCK SOUND. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WIND GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS AND SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR IN STRONGER STORMS. BOATERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL MAY DEVELOP THIS EVENING...REDUCING VISIBILITIES SOUTH OF A NEW POINT COMFORT TO CHARLES LIGHT LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WAMSLEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 3:08 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 308 PM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 VAZ049-063-064-072>074-022015- CAROLINE VA-ESSEX VA-HANOVER VA-KING AND QUEEN VA-KING WILLIAM VA-LOUISA VA- 308 PM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CAROLINE COUNTY TOWARD THE MIDDLE PENINSULA... AT 308 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES WEST OF MILFORD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR LADYSMITH AT 315 PM EDT... GOLANSVILLE AT 320 PM EDT...PENOLA AT 330 PM EDT...SPARTA AT 345 PM EDT...GETHER AT 350 PM EDT...SALVIA AT 355 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. EXPECT FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THESE STORMS. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IF YOU HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE INTO A SAFE SHELTER BEFORE THESE STORMS REACH YOUR AREA. REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. SMF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William | 55 min |
| May 2, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 83 min | |
| May 2, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester | 38 min |
| May 2, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.