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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 2011, 2:19 AM EDT for Chowan County, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2011, 2:19 AM EDT (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2011, 2:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chowan County, NC, Perquimans County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 12:32 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS51 KAKQ 270619
TORAKQ
NCC041-143-270645-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.TO.W.0052.110827T0619Z-110827T0645Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
219 AM EDT SAT AUG 27 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL CHOWAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...
SOUTHERN PERQUIMANS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 245 AM EDT
* AT 217 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARVEY POINT...AND MOVING WEST AT 50 MPH.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
BURGESS AROUND 225 AM EDT.
HERTFORD AND WINFALL AROUND 230 AM EDT.
BELVIDERE AROUND 235 AM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE LIGHT NIXON
FORK...YEOPIM STATION...SMITHTOWN AND BEACH SPRINGS.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3612 7662 3629 7656 3623 7639 3624 7638
3623 7638 3619 7626 3616 7624 3610 7626
3613 7633 3613 7634 3610 7629 3609 7629
TIME...MOT...LOC 0620Z 108DEG 42KT 3614 7632
$$
GINGRICHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 10:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 54 min |
| Aug 27, 1:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Hertford, Pasquotank and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 2:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 3:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 19 min |
| Aug 27, 3:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Hertford | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 3:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 23 min |
| Aug 27, 4:37 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gates | 13 min |
| Aug 27, 6:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Hertford, Pasquotank and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:18 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 5 days |
| Aug 27, 10:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 27, 12:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 15 hr |
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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.