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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2019, 5:11 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 22, 2019, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Caroline County, VA, Essex County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 22, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 21, 9:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 16 hr |
| Mar 21, 9:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 37 hr |
| Mar 21, 9:40 PM EDT | Gale Warning | AKQ | 33 hr | |
| Mar 22, 1:29 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Northampton | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:30 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond | 33 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:56 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Henrico, City of Richmond | 16 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Westmoreland | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Essex, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Louisa, Powhatan | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Essex, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Essex and 18 more | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 113 min | |
| Mar 22, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Brunswick, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Gloucester, Greensville and 26 more | 59 min |
| Mar 22, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 84 min | |
| Mar 22, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 64 min | |
| Mar 22, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 1:29 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 3 hr |
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.