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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2014, 3:35 PM EDT for 6 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 18, 2014, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2014, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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 18, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Aug 18, 2:37 PM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:37 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 504 AM EDT MON AUG 18 2014 NCZ012-VAZ048-049-060>072-079>083-087-088-092-191030- NORTHAMPTON NC-FLUVANNA-LOUISA-PRINCE EDWARD-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND- HANOVER-CAROLINE-MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-POWHATAN- CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO-KING WILLIAM-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE- CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GREENSVILLE-SUSSEX-SOUTHAMPTON- 504 AM EDT MON AUG 18 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING...POOR DRAINAGE...AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MDZ021>025-NCZ013>017-030>032-102-VAZ073>078-084>086-089>091-093>100- 191030- DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES- HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK-BERTIE-CHOWAN- PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-KING AND QUEEN-ESSEX-WESTMORELAND- RICHMOND-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-SURRY- JAMES CITY-YORK-ISLE OF WIGHT-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON- NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH-ACCOMACK- NORTHAMPTON VA- 504 AM EDT MON AUG 18 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND...COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS VIRGINIA...THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA AND THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING...POOR DRAINAGE...AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 05
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 12:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 1:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Lunenburg, Sussex, City of Emporia | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 2 more | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Prince George, Southampton, Sussex | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince George | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Surry, City of Colonial Heights and 2 more | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Surry | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Surry, City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, James City, New Kent, Surry, City of Williamsburg | 57 min |
| Aug 18, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min | |
| Aug 18, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 45 min | |
| Aug 18, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 41 min | |
| Aug 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 96 min | |
| Aug 18, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 12 min |
| Aug 18, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 54 min | |
| Aug 18, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chowan, Gates | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 58 min |
| Aug 18, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.