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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 28, 20166 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2016, 9:43 PM EDT for 6 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 47 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 28, 2016, 9:43 PM EDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2016, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Caroline County, VA, Essex County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 28, 9:01 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 9:01 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 8:48 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 8:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
821 PM EDT THU JUL 28 2016

MDZ023-024-VAZ099-100-290100-
INLAND WORCESTER-SOMERSET-ACCOMACK-NORTHAMPTON-
821 PM EDT THU JUL 28 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN WORCESTER...
SOUTHEASTERN SOMERSET...NORTHERN NORTHAMPTON AND ACCOMACK COUNTIES...

AT 820 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PARKSLEY...OR
16 MILES NORTHEAST OF EXMORE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN
INLAND WORCESTER...SOUTHEASTERN SOMERSET...ACCOMACK AND NORTHEASTERN
NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: SAXIS...
SHELLTOWN...SANFORD...HARBORTON...MAPPSVILLE...REHOBETH...TEMPERANCEV
ILLE... BLOXOM...BYRDTOWN AND LOCUSTVILLE.

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.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MORE THAN 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM.
SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 3784 7532 3784 7542 3778 7548 3761 7556
      3756 7555 3737 7567 3752 7599 3776 7587
      3775 7590 3777 7593 3809 7578 3809 7575
      3810 7578 3814 7576 3804 7526 3801 7526
      3803 7524 3802 7519
TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 292DEG 37KT 3775 7569

MINNICK

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 8:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 8:58 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 9:21 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 9:28 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 9:37 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 28, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		56 min
Jul 28, 8:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Accomack	25 min
Jul 28, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		58 min
Jul 28, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	39 min
Jul 28, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Accomack	34 min
Jul 28, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Louisa, Westmoreland	66 min
Jul 28, 9:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, Richmond, Westmoreland	40 min
Jul 28, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, Henrico, King William, City of Richmond	38 min
Jul 28, 10:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Essex, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	53 min
Jul 28, 10:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		67 min
Jul 28, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico, New Kent	46 min
Jul 28, 10:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, Powhatan, City of Richmond	44 min
Jul 28, 10:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William, Middlesex, New Kent	50 min
Jul 28, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, King William	46 min
Jul 28, 11:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		72 min
Jul 28, 11:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	37 min
Jul 28, 11:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex	48 min
Jul 28, 11:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Nottoway, Prince Edward	49 min
Jul 29, 12:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	40 min
Jul 29, 12:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen, Lancaster, Northumberland	38 min
Jul 29, 12:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland, Goochland, Powhatan	31 min
Jul 29, 12:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Accomack	42 min
Jul 29, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		60 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.