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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2014, 8:26 PM EDT for Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
- Apr 25, 2014, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2014, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 1:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 14.3
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 Apr 25, 7:34 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 7:34 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 25, 6:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
608 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2014
VAZ063-064-070>078-082-083-085-090-252245-
CAROLINE-CHARLES CITY-CHESTERFIELD-ESSEX-HANOVER-HENRICO-JAMES
CITY-KING AND QUEEN-KING WILLIAM-LANCASTER-MIDDLESEX-NEW
KENT-NORTHUMBERLAND-RICHMOND-WESTMORELAND-
608 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2014
...SECOND ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA...
AT 607 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM DUANE FORK TO
BEACH...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES WEST OF SAINT
STEPHENS CHURCH TO 8 MILES EAST OF MOSELEY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
CHESTER AROUND 615 PM EDT...
SAINT STEPHENS CHURCH AROUND 620 PM EDT...
TAPPAHANNOCK AROUND 630 PM EDT...
WARSAW AROUND 635 PM EDT...
PROVIDENCE FORGE AROUND 640 PM EDT...
CENTER CROSS AROUND 645 PM EDT...
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CAUSE MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING DITCHES...CREEKS...ROADWAYS AND
AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO REDUCE DRIVING SPEEDS TO AVOID
HYDROPLANING.
LAT...LON 3803 7650 3735 7688 3731 7775 3802 7712
3805 7651
44Local storm report, Apr 25, 6:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
623 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0615 PM FLASH FLOOD JACKSON 36.39N 77.42W
04/25/2014 NORTHAMPTON NC EMERGENCY MNGR
NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE AROUND JACKSON.
&&
EVENT NUMBER AKQ1400868
DAPLocal storm report, Apr 25, 6:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 45 min | |
| Apr 26, 7:37 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 8 hr | |
| Apr 25, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 29 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.