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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 30, 2024Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 30, 2024, 6:07 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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: Sep 30, 2024, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2024, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

County Bertie County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 102 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Sep 30, 2:26 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 2:26 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 30, 5:33 PM EDT, 34 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
Sep 29, 8:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie	3 hr
Sep 29, 11:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Prince Edward	3 hr
Sep 30, 12:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward	3 hr
Sep 30, 1:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Nottoway	3 hr
Sep 30, 1:54 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Watch	AKQ	Essex, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond and 1 more	19 hr
Sep 30, 2:39 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		4 days
Sep 30, 3:20 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Goochland, Hanover, Henrico	3 hr
Sep 30, 3:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	3 hr
Sep 30, 4:08 AM EDT	Flood Watch	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa and 5 more	20 hr
Sep 30, 6:17 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton	4 days
Sep 30, 11:26 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Fluvanna	45 hr
Sep 30, 11:26 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Henrico, City of Richmond	67 hr
Sep 30, 3:21 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	3 days
Sep 30, 4:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield	3 hr
Sep 30, 4:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna	50 min
Sep 30, 5:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	116 min
Sep 30, 5:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	3 hr
Sep 30, 5:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Sussex	112 min
Sep 30, 5:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna	5 hr
Sep 30, 6:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex	3 hr
Sep 30, 6:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa	5 hr
Sep 30, 7:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Bertie	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.