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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 1, 2012Pasquotank County, Perquimans County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2012, 5:03 PM EDT for Pasquotank County, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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: Jun 1, 2012, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jun 1, 5:18 PM EDT	TORNADO	2 W Chesterfield Height, NC	OFFICER REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 17. TORNADO LIFTED AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES BUT ROTATION WAS STILL EVIDENT.

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
Jun 1, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

203 
WFUS51 KAKQ 012103
TORAKQ
NCC139-143-012130-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.TO.W.0005.120601T2103Z-120601T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
503 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PASQUOTANK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...
  CENTRAL PERQUIMANS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 501 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHAPANOKE...OR 6
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELIZABETH CITY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL
  PASQUOTANK AND CENTRAL PERQUIMANS COUNTIES.

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 3637 7634 3624 7616 3617 7638 3621 7643
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 243DEG 25KT 3627 7630

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	57 min
Jun 1, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	33 min
Jun 1, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	17 min
Jun 1, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan	40 min
Jun 1, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	59 min
Jun 1, 5:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank	28 min
Jun 1, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	34 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.