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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2018, 8:14 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 17, 2018, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2018, 8:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Gates County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:04 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:23 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | AKQ | 5 hr | |
| Jun 18, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 3:19 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | AKQ | Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Henrico and 19 more | 29 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 45 min |
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.