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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 31, 2019Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2019, 1:09 PM EDT for Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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 31, 2019, 1:09 PM EDT (17:09 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2019, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
36 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 17:09 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, 5.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2019-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 956 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2019-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
956 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
4.0

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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 31, 10:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 10:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 4:32 AM EDT, 8 hours 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 8:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 8:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQWestmoreland34 min
May 30, 9:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQDinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway47 min
May 30, 10:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCharles City, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more50 min
May 30, 10:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQGloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, York and 4 more45 min
May 30, 10:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ2 hr
May 30, 11:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQAccomack33 min
May 30, 11:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQDinwiddie, City of Petersburg28 min
May 30, 11:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQIsle of Wight, Northampton, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk and 3 more61 min
May 30, 11:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight, Northampton, York, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News and 5 more49 min
May 30, 11:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQPrince George, Surry, Sussex43 min
May 30, 11:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ2 hr
May 31, 12:32 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQIsle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson, City of Portsmouth and 1 more43 min
May 31, 1:14 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ61 min
May 31, 6:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQFluvanna, Louisa65 min
May 31, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight, Southampton, Sussex, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk46 min
May 31, 7:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQPrince Edward49 min
May 31, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCumberland, Goochland, Powhatan, Prince Edward60 min
May 31, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex51 min
May 31, 7:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQLouisa54 min
May 31, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Powhatan65 min
May 31, 12:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCurrituck31 min
May 31, 1:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCurrituck30 min
May 31, 2:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQBertie55 min
May 31, 2:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCurrituck35 min
May 31, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCurrituck23 min
May 31, 3:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQBertie26 min
May 31, 3:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQBertie30 min
May 31, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQChowan28 min
May 31, 5:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCurrituck50 min
May 31, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBertie, Hertford, Northampton43 min
May 31, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChowan, Perquimans48 min
May 31, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBertie, Gates, Hertford, Northampton47 min
May 31, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNorthampton51 min
May 31, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHertford, Northampton26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.