Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2012, 1:56 PM EDT for Accomack County, Virginia. It was in force for 34 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 1, 2012, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Accomack County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
235
WFUS51 KAKQ 011756
TORAKQ
VAC001-011830-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.TO.W.0020.120801T1756Z-120801T1830Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
156 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL ACCOMACK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 230 PM EDT
* AT 152 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON
ROSECOTTAGE ROAD...SOUTHEAST OF ONLEY...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
EXMORE. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
ACCOMACK COUNTY.
PLEASE SEND YOUR REPORTS OF HAIL AND OR WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING TREES
OR LARGE LIMBS DOWNED...BY CALLING NOAA'S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
WAKEFIELD AT...1...800...7 3 7...8 6 2 4.
&&
LAT...LON 3765 7557 3759 7560 3758 7558 3756 7558
3755 7560 3757 7566 3762 7570 3768 7558
3768 7557
TIME...MOT...LOC 1755Z 255DEG 6KT 3760 7564
$$
442 follow-up statements
943
WWUS51 KAKQ 011811
SVSAKQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
211 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
VAC001-011830-
/O.CON.KAKQ.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-120801T1830Z/
ACCOMACK VA-
211 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ACCOMACK
COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM EDT...
AT 205 PM EDT...A THUNDERSTORM...POSSIBLY PRODUCING A TORNADO...
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ONLEY...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF
EXMORE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN ACCOMACK COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE SEND YOUR REPORTS OF HAIL AND OR WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING TREES
OR LARGE LIMBS DOWNED...BY CALLING NOAA'S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT...1...800...7 3 7...8 6 2 4 IN WAKEFIELD.
&&
LAT...LON 3758 7565 3762 7565 3766 7560 3766 7558
3765 7557 3759 7560 3758 7558 3756 7558
3755 7560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1810Z 255DEG 6KT 3761 7561
$$
44752
WWUS51 KAKQ 011823
SVSAKQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
223 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
VAC001-011833-
/O.EXP.KAKQ.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-120801T1830Z/
ACCOMACK VA-
223 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ACCOMACK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 230 PM EDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA.
PLEASE SEND YOUR REPORTS OF HAIL AND OR WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING TREES
OR LARGE LIMBS DOWNED...BY CALLING NOAA'S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT...1...800...7 3 7...8 6 2 4 IN WAKEFIELD.
LAT...LON 3758 7565 3762 7565 3766 7560 3766 7558
3765 7557 3759 7560 3758 7558 3756 7558
3755 7560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1823Z 255DEG 6KT 3762 7558
$$
44The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 12:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Cumberland, Goochland, Louisa, Powhatan | 43 min |
| Aug 1, 4:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 5:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 94 min |
| Aug 1, 6:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 35 min | |
| Aug 1, 6:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 39 min | |
| Aug 1, 11:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 26 min |
| Aug 1, 12:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 40 min |
| Aug 1, 12:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 81 min | |
| Aug 1, 12:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 69 min |
| Aug 1, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 43 min | |
| Aug 1, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 44 min | |
| Aug 1, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.