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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 2, 2024Cumberland County, Prince Edward County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2024, 4:43 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was in force for 47 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: Aug 2, 2024, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2024, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cumberland County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Aug 1, 7:24 PM EDT, 21 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 7:24 PM EDT, 21 hours 19 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 3:12 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		43 hr
Aug 2, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland, Goochland, Louisa	45 min
Aug 2, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	55 min
Aug 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Prince Edward	47 min
Aug 2, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward	51 min
Aug 2, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, Powhatan	39 min
Aug 2, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Mecklenburg	49 min
Aug 2, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg, City of Richmond	39 min
Aug 2, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway	45 min
Aug 2, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Sussex, City of Emporia	39 min
Aug 2, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, New Kent, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights and 3 more	34 min
Aug 2, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen, King William	42 min
Aug 2, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	53 min
Aug 2, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, City of Petersburg	50 min
Aug 2, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		78 min
Aug 2, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, Middlesex, Surry, City of Williamsburg	43 min
Aug 2, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, James City, Prince George, Surry, Sussex, York and 1 more	51 min
Aug 2, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		94 min

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.