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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 10, 2018Fluvanna County, Louisa County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2018, 4:50 PM EDT for Fluvanna County, Louisa County, Virginia. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 10, 2018, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2018, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fluvanna County, VA, Louisa County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 10, 3:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:16 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:38 PM EDT, 12 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
Jun 9, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, King and Queen, King William and 4 more	39 min
Jun 9, 8:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline	2 hr
Jun 9, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King William, Louisa and 1 more	46 min
Jun 9, 10:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King and Queen, King William	4 hr
Jun 9, 10:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	82 min
Jun 9, 10:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Henrico, Powhatan, City of Richmond	48 min
Jun 9, 11:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	53 min
Jun 9, 11:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Essex, Richmond	6 hr
Jun 10, 3:50 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		72 hr
Jun 10, 4:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Northumberland and 2 more	22 hr
Jun 10, 9:26 AM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ		10 hr
Jun 10, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	33 min
Jun 10, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	29 min
Jun 10, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	36 min
Jun 10, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland	29 min
Jun 10, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	42 min
Jun 10, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	44 min
Jun 10, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna, Louisa	52 min
Jun 10, 5:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Louisa	2 hr
Jun 10, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Powhatan	43 min
Jun 10, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	41 min
Jun 10, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Richmond	52 min
Jun 10, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Powhatan	33 min
Jun 10, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	51 min
Jun 10, 6:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	113 min
Jun 10, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Colonial Heights, City of Richmond	49 min
Jun 10, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Nottoway, Prince Edward	39 min
Jun 10, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, James City, King and Queen, King William and 6 more	51 min
Jun 10, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Dinwiddie, Nottoway	43 min
Jun 10, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	52 min
Jun 10, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	40 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.