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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2016, 8:13 PM EST for 7 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 8:13 PM EST (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Essex County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Richmond County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:25 PM EST | TORNADO | 1 Wsw Bayport, VA | EF0 WIND DAMAGE AT BOY SCOUT CAMP |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:46 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 595 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted.
873
WFUS51 KAKQ 250113
TORAKQ
VAC057-097-101-103-119-127-159-250145-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.TO.W.0036.160225T0113Z-160225T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
813 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA...
SOUTHEASTERN KING WILLIAM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
SOUTH CENTRAL RICHMOND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
EAST CENTRAL KING AND QUEEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
SOUTHEASTERN ESSEX COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
NORTHEASTERN NEW KENT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
NORTHWESTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN EASTERN VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 845 PM EST
* AT 813 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED OVER KING AND QUEEN COURT HOUSE...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
CENTER CROSS AND JAMAICA AROUND 825 PM EST.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE WATER
VIEW...COHOKE...VELMA...ELTHAM...MONTAGUE...DRAGONVILLE...ROMANCOKE...
LANESVILLE...COOKE AND ROSE GARDEN.
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 3750 7684 3759 7700 3787 7679 3774 7657
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 212DEG 48KT 3766 7688
$$
44The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Middlesex, New Kent and 3 more | 44 min |
| Feb 24, 7:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Prince George, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Prince George, Sussex, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 7:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Henrico, King William, New Kent | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 7:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, City of Franklin | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 7:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Southampton, City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 7:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Henrico, James City, King and Queen, King William, New Kent and 2 more | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 7:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond and 1 more | 53 min |
| Feb 24, 8:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 8:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Middlesex, Richmond | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 8:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Essex, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 8:28 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 32 min | |
| Feb 24, 8:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 15 min |
| Feb 24, 8:44 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 91 min | |
| Feb 24, 8:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex | 11 min |
| Feb 24, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Suffolk | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:49 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Poquoson | 26 min |
| Feb 24, 9:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Mathews, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson and 2 more | 44 min |
| Feb 24, 9:54 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 10:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 23 min |
| Feb 25, 12:59 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 51 hr | |
| Feb 25, 10:00 AM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 3 hr | |
| Feb 25, 1:00 PM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 15 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.