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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2022, 6:09 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Dinwiddie County, Greensville County, Virginia. It was in force for 51 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 21, 2022, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brunswick County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Greensville County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 908 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick | 32 min |
| May 21, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick | 30 min |
| May 21, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Prince George | 45 min |
| May 21, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 38 min |
| May 21, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Petersburg | 38 min |
| May 21, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Southampton, City of Franklin | 58 min |
| May 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 64 min |
| May 21, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Franklin | 43 min |
| May 21, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 39 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.