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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2011, 8:12 PM EDT for Caroline County, Hanover County, Virginia. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2011, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2011, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Caroline County, VA, Hanover County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:25 PM EDT | TORNADO | Noel, VA | LARGE TREES DOWN VICNITY OF VERDON AND NOEL ROADS REPORTED BY PUBLIC WHO BELIEVED IT MIGHT BE A TORNADO. |
| Apr 27, 8:55 PM EDT | TORNADO | 5 S Ladysmith, VA | NWS STORM SURVEY DETERMINED DAMAGE CONSISTENT WITH AN EF-1 TORNADO. TORNADO TRACK MEASURED AT APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS WIDE. THE TORNADO CROSSED JERICHO ROAD...APPROXIMATELY 2.5 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF CARMEL CHURCH. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 14.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS51 KAKQ 280012
TORAKQ
VAC033-085-280045-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.TO.W.0034.110428T0012Z-110428T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
812 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CAROLINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
NORTH CENTRAL HANOVER COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 845 PM EDT
* AT 808 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF LADYSMITH...OR 11 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
LADYSMITH AROUND 825 PM EDT.
BOWLING GREEN AND MILFORD AROUND 835 PM EDT.
FORT A.P. HILL AROUND 845 PM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE RUTHER
GLEN...GOLANSVILLE...CEDON...WOODFORD...GUINEA...VILLBORO...
RAPPAHANNOCK ACADEMY AND CORBIN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE... OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. AS A LAST
RESORT...EITHER PARK YOUR VEHICLE AND STAY PUT...OR ABANDON YOUR
VEHICLE AND LIE DOWN IN A LOW LYING AREA.
TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 3825 7728 3823 7724 3822 7725 3821 7723
3821 7724 3817 7718 3817 7715 3815 7713
3785 7751 3791 7762 3819 7744 3826 7735
TIME...MOT...LOC 0012Z 219DEG 27KT 3793 7753
$$
ALBRIGHTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 18 min |
| Apr 27, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 9:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 9:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Prince Edward | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 5:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Cumberland, Goochland, Powhatan, Prince Edward | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 9:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Powhatan, Prince Edward | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 9:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Caroline, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover and 3 more | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 10:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Louisa, Powhatan | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 10:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Hanover, Louisa, Richmond, Westmoreland | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King and Queen, Westmoreland | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 10:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 10:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King and Queen, King William, Richmond and 1 more | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 11:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Goochland, Powhatan | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 11:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg, Nottoway | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 12:22 PM EDT | Gale Warning | AKQ | 7 hr | |
| Apr 28, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hanover | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Westmoreland | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 100 min | |
| Apr 28, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 66 min |
| Apr 28, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 48 min | |
| Apr 28, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, Mecklenburg | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Essex, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen and 4 more | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, James City, New Kent and 6 more | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster and 4 more | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 107 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.