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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2020, 8:20 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Maryland. 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
- Jul 6, 2020, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2020, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Wicomico County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 Jul 6, 7:43 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 7:43 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 8:04 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Wakefield VA 804 PM EDT Mon Jul 6 2020 NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-060>062-065>069-079>090-092-093- 095>098-100-509>520-523>525-080015- Northampton-Hertford-Gates-Pasquotank-Camden-Western Currituck- Bertie-Chowan-Perquimans-Eastern Currituck-Fluvanna-Prince Edward- Cumberland-Goochland-Mecklenburg-Lunenburg-Nottoway-Amelia-Powhatan- Brunswick-Dinwiddie-Prince George-Charles City-New Kent-Gloucester- Middlesex-Mathews-Greensville-Sussex-Surry-James City-Southampton- Isle of Wight-Norfolk/Portsmouth-Suffolk-Chesapeake-Virginia Beach- Western Louisa-Eastern Louisa-Western Hanover-Eastern Hanover- Western Chesterfield-Eastern Chesterfield (Including Col. Heights)- Western Henrico (Including the City of Richmond)-Eastern Henrico- Western King William-Eastern King William-Western King and Queen- Eastern King and Queen-York-Newport News-Hampton/Poquoson- 804 PM EDT Mon Jul 6 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast North Carolina, central Virginia, east central Virginia, eastern Virginia, south central Virginia and southeast Virginia. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. MDZ021>025-VAZ064-075>078-099-521-522-080015- Dorchester-Wicomico-Somerset-Inland Worcester-Maryland Beaches- Caroline-Westmoreland-Richmond-Northumberland-Lancaster-Accomack- Western Essex-Eastern Essex- 804 PM EDT Mon Jul 6 2020 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 333 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast Maryland, east central Virginia, eastern Virginia, north central Virginia and southeast Virginia. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 6, 3:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
353 PM EDT MON JUL 6 2020
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0748 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 NNW PROSPECT 37.34N 78.57W
07/05/2020 PRINCE EDWARD VA 911 CALL CENTER
SEVERAL TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN ACROSS THE
COUNTY.
&&
ESSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 11:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min | |
| Jul 6, 11:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northumberland, Westmoreland | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 12:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northumberland, Richmond | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 3:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 4:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Wicomico, Worcester | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 10:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Somerset | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 10:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dorchester | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Somerset | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Somerset | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 9:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Worcester | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Worcester | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 1:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Worcester | 2 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.