Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2021, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Surry County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 5:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Nnw Hilton Village, VA | NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES CAUSED BY STORM NEAR WARWICK BOULEVARD. TIME ESTIMATED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
377
WUUS51 KAKQ 092045
SVRAKQ
VAC093-181-650-700-092130-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.SV.W.0029.210409T2045Z-210409T2130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
445 PM EDT Fri Apr 9 2021
The National Weather Service in Wakefield has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Isle of Wight County in southeastern Virginia...
The City of Hampton in southeastern Virginia...
The City of Newport News in southeastern Virginia...
East central Surry County in southeastern Virginia...
* Until 530 PM EDT.
* At 444 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Smithfield,
moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind damage
to trees and powerlines.
* Locations impacted include...
Newport News, Hampton, Smithfield, Christopher Newport University,
Northampton, Rescue, Denbigh, Beaconsdale, Fort Eustis, Rushmere,
Oriana, Hilton Village, Lawson, Moonlight, Oyster Point, Mogarts
Beach and Menchville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Please report severe weather by calling 757-899-2415, posting to the
NWS Wakefield Facebook page, or using Twitter @NWSWAKEFIELDVA.
&&
LAT...LON 3694 7669 3705 7677 3719 7658 3704 7638
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 253DEG 16KT 3705 7669
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
EI1 follow-up statement
409
WWUS51 KAKQ 092109
SVSAKQ
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
509 PM EDT Fri Apr 9 2021
VAC181-092119-
/O.CAN.KAKQ.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-210409T2130Z/
Surry VA-
509 PM EDT Fri Apr 9 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL SURRY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight EDT for
southeastern Virginia.
LAT...LON 3694 7669 3700 7674 3701 7674 3715 7656
3704 7638
TIME...MOT...LOC 2109Z 271DEG 14KT 3702 7657
$$
VAC093-650-700-092130-
/O.CON.KAKQ.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-210409T2130Z/
Isle of Wight VA-City of Hampton VA-City of Newport News VA-
509 PM EDT Fri Apr 9 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN ISLE OF WIGHT ...THE CITY OF HAMPTON AND THE CENTRAL
CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS...
At 509 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Rescue, or near
Smithfield, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind damage to
trees and powerlines.
Locations impacted include...
Newport News, Hampton, Smithfield, Christopher Newport University,
Northampton, Rescue, Denbigh, Beaconsdale, Hilton Village, Lawson,
Oyster Point, Mogarts Beach, Menchville and Rushmere.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3694 7669 3700 7674 3701 7674 3715 7656
3704 7638
TIME...MOT...LOC 2109Z 271DEG 14KT 3702 7657
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
EIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 50 min |
| Apr 9, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Newport News | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 35 min |
| Apr 9, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 48 min | |
| Apr 9, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Surry | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 65 min | |
| Apr 9, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Portsmouth | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Mecklenburg | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 78 min | |
| Apr 9, 5:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Surry, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News | 3 hr |
| Apr 9, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Mecklenburg | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 6:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 3 hr |
| Apr 9, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Richmond | 50 min |
| Apr 9, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 88 min | |
| Apr 9, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Petersburg | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Prince George | 52 min |
| Apr 9, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 4 hr |
| Apr 9, 7:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.