Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2009, 6:04 PM EDT for Charles City County, Prince George County, Surry County, Virginia. It was in force for 41 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 9, 2009, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2009, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Charles City County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Surry County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 589 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 9, 4:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 4:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
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Special weather statement, May 9, 1:57 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 9, 5:16 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 516 PM EDT SAT MAY 9 2009 VAZ067-068-070-080-081-092200- AMELIA VA-CHESTERFIELD VA-DINWIDDIE VA-NOTTOWAY VA-PRINCE GEORGE VA- 516 PM EDT SAT MAY 9 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO **LOCATION**... AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CHESDIN PARK...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF MANNBORO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR FORD AT 520 PM EDT...CHURCH ROAD AT 525 PM EDT...SUTHERLAND AT 535 PM EDT...ADDISON AT 540 PM EDT...ETTRICK AT 545 PM EDT...PETERSBURG NATIONAL BATTLLEFIELD AT 550 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH...ALONG WITH OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. BH
Special weather statement, May 9, 5:16 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 516 PM EDT SAT MAY 9 2009 VAZ067-068-070-080-081-092200- AMELIA VA-CHESTERFIELD VA-DINWIDDIE VA-NOTTOWAY VA-PRINCE GEORGE VA- 516 PM EDT SAT MAY 9 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA... AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CHESDIN PARK...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF MANNBORO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR FORD AT 520 PM EDT...CHURCH ROAD AT 525 PM EDT...SUTHERLAND AT 535 PM EDT...ADDISON AT 540 PM EDT...ETTRICK AT 545 PM EDT...PETERSBURG NATIONAL BATTLLEFIELD AT 550 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH...ALONG WITH OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. BH
Special weather statement, May 9, 5:25 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 525 PM EDT SAT MAY 9 2009 VAZ063-064-092230- CAROLINE VA-HANOVER VA- 525 PM EDT SAT MAY 9 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS THE AREA... AT 524 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF MILFORD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR CHILESBURG AT 530 PM EDT... RUTHER GLEN AT 535 PM EDT...LADYSMITH AT 540 PM EDT...MILFORD AT 600 PM EDT...BOWLING GREEN AT 605 PM EDT...SPARTA AT 615 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. 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. 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 1:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Sussex | 46 min |
| May 9, 2:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 46 min |
| May 9, 3:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk and 1 more | 19 min |
| May 9, 3:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 60 min | |
| May 9, 3:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach | 46 min |
| May 9, 4:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 38 min | |
| May 9, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, James City, Surry, York, City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg | 38 min |
| May 9, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward | 49 min |
| May 9, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 34 min | |
| May 9, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 29 min |
| May 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 88 min | |
| May 9, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Hanover, Henrico and 9 more | 44 min |
| May 9, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia | 38 min |
| May 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 2 hr | |
| May 9, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Wicomico | 49 min |
| May 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Wicomico, Worcester | 55 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.