Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 334
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2014, 2:28 PM EDT for 30 counties in North Carolina; 66 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2014, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2014, 9:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 96 counties
Alamance County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth, Guilford | 79 min |
| Jun 19, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 65 min |
| Jun 19, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, Pittsylvania | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George, Surry, Sussex | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Louisa, Powhatan and 1 more | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, Louisa | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, King and Queen | 51 min |
| Jun 19, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 65 min |
| Jun 19, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, Henrico, King William, New Kent, City of Richmond | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 42 min |
| Jun 19, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, King William, New Kent | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Wake | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 25 min |
| Jun 19, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Prince George, Sussex | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 51 min |
| Jun 19, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Gates, Hertford, Northampton | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 51 min |
| Jun 19, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 37 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan and 20 more | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 9:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Frederick, City of Winchester | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clarke, Frederick, City of Winchester | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 12:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 21 more | 87 min |
| Jun 19, 12:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt and 25 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.