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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2008, 8:15 PM EDT for Lunenburg County, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. 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 26, 2008, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 26, 3:31 PM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:31 PM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 27, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 114 min | |
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, Sussex | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, James City, New Kent | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 119 min | |
| Jun 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 51 min | |
| Jun 27, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 47 min | |
| Jun 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 84 min | |
| Jun 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 12 min | |
| Jun 27, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 40 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.