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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 13, 2015Sussex County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2015, 6:21 PM EDT for Sussex County, Virginia. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 2015, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2015, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Sussex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 13, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:43 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
546 PM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

VAZ519-521-522-132230-
WESTERN KING AND QUEEN-EASTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN
ESSEX-WESTERN ESSEX-
546 PM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ESSEX AND NORTHWESTERN KING AND
QUEEN COUNTIES...

AT 545 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR MILLERS TAVERN...OR
NEAR SAINT STEPHENS CHURCH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
1 TO 2 INCHES RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MILLERS TAVERN AROUND 555 PM EDT.
  TAPPAHANNOCK AND DUNNSVILLE AROUND 615 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE OWENTON...REXBURG...
HOWERTONS...BRAYS FORK...INDIAN NECK...UPRIGHT...DUNBROOKE...CARET...
BISCOE AND MOUNT LANDING.

LAT...LON 3802 7692 3801 7691 3799 7691 3798 7687
      3793 7685 3790 7678 3787 7677 3783 7673
      3779 7689 3779 7692 3778 7695 3776 7702
      3793 7715 3805 7692
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 245DEG 15KT 3789 7702

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
621 PM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

VAZ080-081-088-132315-
DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-SUSSEX-
621 PM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL DINWIDDIE...
SOUTHWESTERN PRINCE GEORGE AND NORTHERN SUSSEX COUNTIES...

AT 620 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CARSON...OR 8 MILES
SOUTH OF PETERSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL
DINWIDDIE...SOUTHWESTERN PRINCE GEORGE AND NORTHERN SUSSEX
COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...NEWVILLE...
TEMPLETON...REAMS AND BURGESS.

STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THESE WIND GUSTS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS...SMALL OR WEAKENED TREES...AND
BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER
LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

LAT...LON 3714 7751 3715 7730 3704 7703 3689 7748
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 313DEG 11KT 3709 7737

SCALORA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 1:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Surry	24 hr
Jul 13, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland	41 min
Jul 13, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	44 min
Jul 13, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Richmond	54 min
Jul 13, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, City of Richmond	46 min
Jul 13, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex	36 min
Jul 13, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico	32 min
Jul 13, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	37 min
Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex	28 min
Jul 13, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	47 min
Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex	44 min
Jul 13, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	45 min
Jul 13, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank	74 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.