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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 27, 2015Caroline County, Essex County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2015, 3:40 PM EDT for Caroline County, Essex County, Virginia. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 27, 2015, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2015, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Caroline County, VA, Essex County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 27, 1:54 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

575 
WFUS51 KAKQ 271940
TORAKQ
VAC033-057-272015-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.TO.W.0013.150627T1940Z-150627T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
340 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ESSEX COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  CENTRAL CAROLINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
    
* AT 339 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LADYSMITH...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MILFORD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MILFORD AROUND 355 PM EDT.
  BOWLING GREEN AROUND 400 PM EDT.
  FORT A.P. HILL AROUND 405 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
GOLANSVILLE...PENOLA...CEDAR FORK...GUINEA...VILLBORO AND WOODFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3806 7709 3789 7749 3790 7750 3791 7752
      3792 7753 3792 7755 3793 7755 3794 7757
      3796 7757 3819 7741
TIME...MOT...LOC 1939Z 227DEG 33KT 3794 7750 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 1:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	38 min
Jun 27, 11:49 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Northumberland	15 hr
Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	47 min
Jun 27, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		67 min
Jun 27, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	36 min
Jun 27, 2:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	34 min
Jun 27, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Portsmouth	23 min
Jun 27, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Hampton, City of Portsmouth	36 min
Jun 27, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		62 min
Jun 27, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	32 min
Jun 27, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, City of Richmond	48 min
Jun 27, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Goochland	55 min
Jun 27, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight	38 min
Jun 27, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	47 min
Jun 27, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		28 min
Jun 27, 3:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, Henrico, King William	37 min
Jun 27, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	33 min
Jun 27, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		59 min
Jun 27, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg	38 min
Jun 27, 3:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Jun 27, 3:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, King William, Richmond	35 min
Jun 27, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Prince George	23 min
Jun 27, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, Richmond, Westmoreland	48 min
Jun 27, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, James City, Prince George, Surry	45 min
Jun 27, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen	25 min
Jun 27, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Surry	49 min
Jun 27, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William, New Kent	33 min
Jun 27, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, Richmond	36 min
Jun 27, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin	56 min
Jun 27, 5:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	3 hr
Jun 27, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	54 min
Jun 27, 7:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Surry, Sussex and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 27, 7:25 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		24 hr

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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.