Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 2008, 4:06 AM EST for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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
- Feb 18, 2008, 4:06 AM EST (09:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2008, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Bertie County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 3:59 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 Feb 18, 3:00 AM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 3:00 AM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 18, 1:17 AM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 117 AM EST MON FEB 18 2008 NCZ012-030-VAZ079-087-092-180715- BERTIE NC-BRUNSWICK VA-GREENSVILLE VA-NORTHAMPTON NC-SOUTHAMPTON VA- 117 AM EST MON FEB 18 2008 ...SHOWERS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS ALONG THE BORDER... AT 117 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS FROM BRODNAX TO 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WARRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR... LAWRENCEVILLE AROUND 135 AM EST... GARYSBURG AROUND 155 AM EST... EMPORIA AROUND 205 AM EST... WIND GUSTS TO UP TO 45 MPH ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE SHOWERS. 44
Special weather statement, Feb 18, 3:09 AM EST, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 309 AM EST MON FEB 18 2008 NCZ012>017-030>032-102-181015- NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK- BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARGARETTSVILLE...AHOSKIE... ELIZABETH CITY...EDENTON...COROLLA 309 AM EST MON FEB 18 2008 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA... MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA BETWEEN 3 AND 4:30 AM. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN COUNTYS BORDERING THE ALBEMARLE SOUND. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT UP TO 40 MPH. HIGHER WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR ANY THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR WILL LIKELY RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AS WELL AS MINOR FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 5:36 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:50 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min | |
| Feb 18, 4:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Perquimans | 54 min |
| Feb 18, 5:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 34 min |
| Feb 18, 5:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Perquimans | 20 min |
| Feb 18, 5:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank | 26 min |
| Feb 18, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 35 min |
Nearby
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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.