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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2016, 6:21 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It was in force for 25 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
- Apr 28, 2016, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2016, 6:46 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Mecklenburg County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 28, 4:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 4:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 438 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 MDZ021>025-VAZ048-061-062-064-068-069-075>078-081>086-089-090-099- 100-509>525-292045- DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES- FLUVANNA-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-CAROLINE-AMELIA-POWHATAN-WESTMORELAND- RICHMOND-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-PRINCE GEORGE-CHARLES CITY- NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-SURRY-JAMES CITY-ACCOMACK- NORTHAMPTON-WESTERN LOUISA-EASTERN LOUISA-WESTERN HANOVER- EASTERN HANOVER-WESTERN CHESTERFIELD- EASTERN CHESTERFIELD (INCLUDING COL. HEIGHTS)- WESTERN HENRICO (INCLUDING THE CITY OF RICHMOND)-EASTERN HENRICO- WESTERN KING WILLIAM-EASTERN KING WILLIAM-WESTERN KING AND QUEEN- EASTERN KING AND QUEEN-WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-YORK-NEWPORT NEWS- HAMPTON/POQUOSON- 438 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MARYLAND...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EASTERN VIRGINIA...NORTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ013>017-030>032-102-VAZ060-067-080-088-092-093-095>098-292045- HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-WESTERN CURRITUCK-BERTIE-CHOWAN- PERQUIMANS-EASTERN CURRITUCK-PRINCE EDWARD-NOTTOWAY-DINWIDDIE-SUSSEX- SOUTHAMPTON-ISLE OF WIGHT-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE- VIRGINIA BEACH- 438 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ012-VAZ065-079-087-292045- NORTHAMPTON-MECKLENBURG-BRUNSWICK-GREENSVILLE- 438 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 119 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ066-292045- LUNENBURG- 438 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 5:38 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:59 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 71 hr | |
| Apr 28, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Louisa | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, Louisa | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 11:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 2:07 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Bertie | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Hertford, Perquimans | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 3:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 5:07 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 5 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.