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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 9, 2024Caroline County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2024, 5:39 AM EDT for Caroline County, Virginia. It was in force for 21 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 9, 2024, 5:39 AM EDT (09:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2024, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

County Caroline County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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 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, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 9, 3:34 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:34 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 4:01 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 12:29 AM EDT, 5 hours 10 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 8, 9:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	3 hr
Aug 8, 9:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Prince Edward	5 hr
Aug 8, 9:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Powhatan	10 min
Aug 8, 11:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Mecklenburg	9 hr
Aug 8, 11:48 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Prince Edward	49 hr
Aug 9, 12:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	8 hr
Aug 9, 1:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Prince Edward	8 hr
Aug 9, 4:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Caroline	37 min
Aug 9, 4:47 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William	28 min
Aug 9, 6:35 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk	25 min
Aug 9, 6:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		40 min
Aug 9, 12:20 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		18 hr
Aug 9, 6:23 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	10 hr
Aug 9, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Richmond	41 min
Aug 9, 7:02 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		15 hr
Aug 8, 8:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Northampton	30 min
Aug 8, 8:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Hertford, Northampton	3 hr
Aug 8, 8:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Bertie	16 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.