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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Wakefield, VA

February 22, 2021City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2021, 3:29 PM EST for City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2021, 3:29 PM EST (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2021, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 398 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

889 
WUUS51 KAKQ 222029
SVRAKQ
VAC550-810-222115-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.SV.W.0005.210222T2029Z-210222T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
329 PM EST Mon Feb 22 2021

The National Weather Service in Wakefield has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  The southeastern City of Chesapeake in southeastern Virginia...
  The City of Virginia Beach in southeastern Virginia...

* Until 415 PM EST.

* At 329 PM EST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from 14 miles northeast of Princess Anne to near Morgans
  Corner, moving east at 60 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines.

* Severe thunderstorms will be near,
  Northwest around 340 PM EST.

Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include Rudee
Heights, Mount Pleasant, Princess Anne Plaza, Sigma, Sandbridge
Beach, Oceana NAS, Munden, Macons Corner, Pungo and Oceana.

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 3655 7639 3695 7602 3695 7594 3654 7581
TIME...MOT...LOC 2029Z 256DEG 53KT 3691 7588 3641 7639 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

MRD

2 follow-up statements

785 
WWUS51 KAKQ 222048
SVSAKQ

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
348 PM EST Mon Feb 22 2021

VAC550-222057-
/O.CAN.KAKQ.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-210222T2115Z/
City of Chesapeake VA-
348 PM EST Mon Feb 22 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN CITY OF
CHESAPEAKE IS CANCELLED...

The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned 
area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

LAT...LON 3654 7588 3655 7587 3655 7589 3654 7590
      3654 7591 3655 7591 3654 7592 3655 7592
      3655 7596 3654 7596 3655 7598 3654 7602
      3655 7604 3655 7612 3661 7612 3687 7592
      3654 7581
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 256DEG 53KT 3697 7558 3647 7609 

$$

VAC810-222115-
/O.CON.KAKQ.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-210222T2115Z/
City of Virginia Beach VA-
348 PM EST Mon Feb 22 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EST
FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH...

At 347 PM EST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 30 miles southeast of Bay View to near Moyock, moving
east at 60 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines.

These severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly rural areas of the
southeastern City of Virginia Beach, including the following
locations... Dam Neck, Munden, Sigma, Pungo and Sandbridge Beach.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3654 7588 3655 7587 3655 7589 3654 7590
      3654 7591 3655 7591 3654 7592 3655 7592
      3655 7596 3654 7596 3655 7598 3654 7602
      3655 7604 3655 7612 3661 7612 3687 7592
      3654 7581
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 256DEG 53KT 3697 7558 3647 7609 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

MRD

599 
WWUS51 KAKQ 222106
SVSAKQ

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
406 PM EST Mon Feb 22 2021

VAC810-222116-
/O.EXP.KAKQ.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-210222T2115Z/
City of Virginia Beach VA-
406 PM EST Mon Feb 22 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN CITY OF
VIRGINIA BEACH WILL EXPIRE AT 415 PM EST...
    
The storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe
limits, and have exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire.

LAT...LON 3654 7588 3655 7587 3655 7589 3654 7590
      3654 7591 3655 7591 3654 7592 3655 7592
      3655 7596 3654 7596 3655 7598 3654 7602
      3655 7604 3655 7612 3661 7612 3687 7592
      3654 7581
TIME...MOT...LOC 2106Z 256DEG 53KT 3704 7524 3654 7576 

$$

MRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 1:28 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Greensville, Isle of Wight, James City, Prince George, Southampton and 5 more	62 min
Feb 22, 1:41 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		97 min
Feb 22, 1:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, Greensville, Isle of Wight, James City, Southampton, Surry and 9 more	48 min
Feb 22, 2:01 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		76 min
Feb 22, 2:18 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		117 min
Feb 22, 2:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton	41 min
Feb 22, 2:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach	56 min
Feb 22, 2:42 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		2 hr
Feb 22, 3:04 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.