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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2018, 3:14 PM EDT for Chowan County, Pasquotank County, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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 25, 2018, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2018, 3:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Chowan County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 10:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Henrico, Nottoway and 7 more | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 5:53 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | AKQ | 6 hr | |
| Apr 25, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, James City, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg and 1 more | 50 min |
| Apr 25, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Greensville, City of Emporia | 44 min |
| Apr 25, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, James City, City of Hopewell | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, City of Emporia, City of Franklin | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Franklin | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 45 min | |
| Apr 25, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 43 min | |
| Apr 25, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 47 min |
| Apr 25, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 27 min |
| Apr 25, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 24 min |
| Apr 25, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chowan, Perquimans | 39 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.