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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2024, 2:29 PM EDT for Isle of Wight County, City of Suffolk, Virginia. It was in force for 31 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 8, 2024, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2024, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties City of Suffolk, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Aug 7, 7:48 PM EDT, 18 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:48 PM EDT, 18 hours 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:36 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 39 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:51 AM EDT | Gale Warning | AKQ | 39 hr | |
| Aug 8, 11:40 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | AKQ | Northumberland, Westmoreland | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 1:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 2:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Dinwiddie | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Suffolk | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 3:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 3:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, James City, Surry | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 50 min | |
| Aug 8, 4:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville | 3 days |
| Aug 8, 5:13 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 19 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:23 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Prince George, Surry, Sussex | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 6:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond | 112 min |
| Aug 8, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 7:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 8:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Perquimans | 20 min |
| Aug 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 30 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.