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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2007, 3:54 PM EDT for Louisa County, Virginia. It was in force for 66 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 28, 2007, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2007, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Louisa County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1321 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 28, 12:26 PM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 12:26 PM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 5:51 AM EDT, 10 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 551 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2007 ANZ656-VAZ065-066-079-087-088-092-093-095>098-291000- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE CHARLES LIGHT VA TO NC VA BORDER OUT 20 NM- MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-BRUNSWICK-GREENSVILLE-SUSSEX-SOUTHAMPTON- ISLE OF WIGHT-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH- 551 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MID ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP...ALTHOUGH THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ630>632-650-652-654-MDZ021>025-VAZ048-049-060>064-067>078-080>086- 089>091-094-099-100-291000- 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- 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-DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES- FLUVANNA-LOUISA-PRINCE EDWARD-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-HANOVER-CAROLINE- NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-POWHATAN-CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO-KING WILLIAM- KING AND QUEEN-ESSEX-WESTMORELAND-RICHMOND-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER- DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX- MATHEWS-SURRY-JAMES CITY-YORK-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON-ACCOMACK- NORTHAMPTON VA- 551 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE SOUTHERN CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE MID ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL 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 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. LARGE HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN TIME FRAME FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE BETWEEN 3 PM AND 10 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANZ633-658-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-291000- CURRITUCK SOUND- COASTAL WATERS FROM NC VA BORDER TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT NC OUT 20 NM-NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN- INLAND CURRITUCK-BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK- 551 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MID ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...CURRITUCK SOUND...COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. BROWN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 3:24 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 324 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2007 VAZ049-282015- LOUISA VA- 324 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING LOUISA COUNTY... AT 321 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF PALMYRA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR WALDROP AT 405 PM EDT...BOSWELLS TAVERN AT 410 PM EDT. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN WESTERN ORANGE COUNTY JUST NORTH OF EHEART...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE ORANGE/LOUISA COUNTY LINE BETWEEN 345 PM AND 415 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS...AS YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE STORM TO BR STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SAMMLER
Special weather statement, May 28, 3:24 PM EDT, 30 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 28, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover, Henrico, New Kent | 43 min |
| May 28, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, New Kent | 57 min |
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.