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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2007, 2:56 AM EDT for Pasquotank 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2007, 2:56 AM EDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2007, 3:26 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pasquotank County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:57 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 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 1334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 Jun 9, 1:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 530 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>098-090930- 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- 530 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR 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 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 A SOUTHWEST FLOW AROUND HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST WILL BRING HOT AND MORE HUMID CONDITIONS TO THE AREA TODAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM THE MID TO UPPER 90S...AND COMBINED WITH MODERATE HUMIDITY...WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDICES OF AROUND 100 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...AS THE VERY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS CLASHES WITH A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. ANZ630>633-650-652-654-656-658-090930- 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- 530 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 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 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MDZ021>025-VAZ099-100-090930- DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES- ACCOMACK-NORTHAMPTON VA- 530 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND AND THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SOUTHWEST FLOW AROUND HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST WILL BRING HOT AND MORE HUMID CONDITIONS TO THE AREA TODAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM THE UPPER 80S TO MID 90S AND COMBINED WITH MODERATE HUMIDITY...WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDICES OF 95 TO 100 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...AS THE VERY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS CLASHES WITH A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. GINGRICH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:51 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 1151 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 VAZ092-093-095>098-090445- CHESAPEAKE VA-ISLE OF WIGHT VA-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH VA-SOUTHAMPTON VA-SUFFOLK VA-VIRGINIA BEACH VA- 1151 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO TIDEWATER REGION... AT 1151 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHURCHLAND TO COURTLAND...OR FROM SMITHFIELD TO COURTLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... FRANKLIN AROUND MIDNIGHT EDT... HOLLAND AROUND 1225 AM EDT... WINDSOR AROUND 1230 AM EDT... IF YOU CAN 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. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. SMF
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 1155 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 VAZ091-094-090430- NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON VA-YORK VA- 1155 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE CITIES OF HAMPTON AND POQUOSON... AT 1155 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HAMPTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...PEA SIZED HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE LOWER PENINSULA. IF YOU CAN 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. HURLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 12:33 AM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King William | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 9:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William, New Kent | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 11:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 59 min | |
| Jun 8, 11:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, York, City of Newport News | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 59 min | |
| Jun 9, 12:03 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 42 min | |
| Jun 9, 12:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 56 min |
| Jun 9, 12:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 95 min | |
| Jun 9, 12:41 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 64 min | |
| Jun 9, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 10:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 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.