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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 28, 2017Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2017, 4:11 PM EDT for Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 22 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: May 28, 2017, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2017, 4:33 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 May 28, 3:37 PM EDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:37 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 3:58 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 11:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 3:21 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 3:23 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 3:44 PM EDT, 27 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
May 27, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	34 min
May 27, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	44 min
May 27, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Henrico and 8 more	36 min
May 27, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen, Middlesex	47 min
May 27, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		64 min
May 27, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, Surry, Sussex, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	36 min
May 27, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk	49 min
May 27, 8:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield	61 min
May 27, 8:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Dinwiddie, Nottoway	45 min
May 27, 9:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Sussex, City of Chesapeake, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	47 min
May 27, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		50 min
May 27, 10:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		73 min
May 27, 10:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	48 min
May 27, 10:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		40 min
May 27, 11:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton, City of Franklin	23 min
May 28, 12:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	26 min
May 28, 12:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	37 min
May 28, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	45 min
May 28, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Norfolk	33 min
May 28, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth and 2 more	80 min
May 28, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		63 min
May 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		63 min
May 28, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		50 min
May 27, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford	48 min
May 27, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	44 min
May 27, 9:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans	39 min
May 27, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	29 min
May 27, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	51 min
May 27, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck	43 min
May 27, 11:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Perquimans	39 min
May 28, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	46 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.