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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 10, 20144 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2014, 1:15 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 10, 2014, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties City of Franklin, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Southampton County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jul 10, 12:52 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 12:52 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 12:46 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 11:16 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1116 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0457 PM     TSTM WND DMG     OCEAN VIEW              36.95N  76.24W
07/09/2014                   CITY OF NORFOLK    VA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            LIGHT POLE FELL ONTO APARTMENT COMPLEX...KNOCKING
            SEVERAL BRICKS OFF THE EXTERIOR WALL.

&&

EVENT NUMBER AKQ1401153

MINNICK

Local storm report, Jul 10, 11:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1119 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0457 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HYDE PARK HOMES         36.93N  76.25W
07/09/2014                   CITY OF NORFOLK    VA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            SEVERAL TREES WERE DOWNED ONTO POWER LINES ON WOODFORD
            STREET.

&&

EVENT NUMBER AKQ1401154

MINNICK

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 11:21 AM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1121 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

VAZ065>067-079-080-087-088-101615-
BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-GREENSVILLE-LUNENBURG-MECKLENBURG-NOTTOWAY-
SUSSEX-
1121 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS
MECKLENBURG...LUNENBURG...BRUNSWICK...DINWIDDIE...NOTTOWAY...
GREENSVILLE AND SUSSEX COUNTIES THROUGH 1215 PM EDT...

AT 1120 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS
OVER LA CROSSE...OR ABOUT OVER BRODNAX...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR FORKSVILLE AT 1125 AM EDT...MEREDITHVILLE AT
1135 AM EDT...PRICES MILL...AND...LAWRENCEVILLE AT 1140 AM
EDT...COCHRAN...AND...ALBERTA AT 1145 AM EDT...DOLPHIN AT 1155 AM
EDT...WARFIELD AT 1205 PM EDT.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

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 3711 7801 3688 7760 3654 7804 3675 7836

LBROWN

Local storm report, Jul 10, 11:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1138 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0730 AM     LIGHTNING        COROLLA                 36.38N  75.83W
07/10/2014                   CURRITUCK          NC   911 CALL CENTER

            HOUSE FIRE IN COROLLA WAS CAUSED BY LIGHTNING

&&

EVENT NUMBER AKQ1401155

MINNICK

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1206 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

NCZ012-VAZ079-087-088-092-101700-
BRUNSWICK-GREENSVILLE-NORTHAMPTON-SOUTHAMPTON-SUSSEX-
1206 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHAMPTON...BRUNSWICK...
CITY OF EMPORIA...GREENSVILLE...SOUTHAMPTON AND SUSSEX COUNTIES
THROUGH 100 PM EDT...

AT 1206 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CALLAVILLE TO BRINK TO 6
MILES SOUTH OF GUM FORKS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES
WEST OF PURDY TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA TO ROANOKE RAPIDS...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

AREAS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  PURDY AROUND 1215 PM EDT...
  PLEASANT HILL AROUND 1220 PM EDT...
  GUMBERRY AROUND 1225 PM EDT...
  OWENS AROUND 1230 PM EDT...
  HUSKE AROUND 1235 PM EDT...
  STONY CREEK AROUND 1240 PM EDT...

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

LAT...LON 3645 7764 3648 7765 3648 7777 3650 7781
      3650 7787 3656 7790 3679 7779 3709 7716
      3674 7694 3647 7728 3642 7760

LBROWN

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:09 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 8:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach	62 min
Jul 9, 8:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	2 hr
Jul 9, 11:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews, York, City of Williamsburg	56 min
Jul 10, 3:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach	39 min
Jul 10, 5:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		23 min
Jul 10, 11:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	54 min
Jul 10, 12:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	54 min
Jul 10, 12:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	41 min
Jul 10, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk	52 min
Jul 10, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	54 min
Jul 10, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Jul 10, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		86 min
Jul 10, 2:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Jul 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	52 min
Jul 10, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	64 min
Jul 10, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		88 min
Jul 10, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	58 min
Jul 10, 5:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach	113 min
Jul 10, 7:29 PM EDT	Flood Watch	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	5 hr
Jul 9, 8:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	3 hr
Jul 9, 9:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan	54 min
Jul 9, 9:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans	49 min
Jul 9, 10:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	3 hr
Jul 9, 10:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	3 hr
Jul 10, 4:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	44 min
Jul 10, 6:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	41 min
Jul 10, 6:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	34 min
Jul 10, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Hertford	66 min
Jul 10, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank and 1 more	34 min
Jul 10, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hertford, Northampton	17 min
Jul 10, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	56 min
Jul 10, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie, Hertford	55 min
Jul 10, 3:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Bertie, Hertford, Northampton	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.