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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wakefield, VA

April 3, 2024Mecklenburg County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2024, 6:11 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It was in force for 22 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: Apr 3, 2024, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2024, 6:33 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County Mecklenburg County, VA

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 113 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 3, 12:38 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -461 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 3, 5:52 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 5:52 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 5:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 5:23 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:34 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:42 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 6:02 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 6:07 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 6:10 PM EDT, 1 minute 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
Apr 3, 5:06 AM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ		10 hr
Apr 3, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	31 min
Apr 3, 2:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Powhatan	19 min
Apr 3, 2:35 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland	10 hr
Apr 3, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover	49 min
Apr 3, 2:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Mecklenburg	28 min
Apr 3, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William and 1 more	48 min
Apr 3, 3:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Hanover, Henrico, King William	26 min
Apr 3, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	32 min
Apr 3, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		2 hr
Apr 3, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, Richmond, Westmoreland	41 min
Apr 3, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	36 min
Apr 3, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	33 min
Apr 3, 3:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, Northumberland, Richmond	32 min
Apr 3, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Prince George and 5 more	51 min
Apr 3, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	31 min
Apr 3, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Surry, Sussex	46 min
Apr 3, 4:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Northumberland, Richmond	27 min
Apr 3, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond	52 min
Apr 3, 4:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Surry, Sussex	23 min
Apr 3, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		65 min
Apr 3, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin	30 min
Apr 3, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	26 min
Apr 3, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		32 min
Apr 3, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway	48 min
Apr 3, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	28 min
Apr 3, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		39 min
Apr 3, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		20 min
Apr 3, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Henrico, Nottoway, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more	30 min
Apr 3, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, James City, New Kent and 5 more	41 min
Apr 3, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	16 min
Apr 3, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews and 9 more	63 min
Apr 3, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	38 min
Apr 3, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	36 min
Apr 3, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie	24 min
Apr 3, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	52 min
Apr 3, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	39 min
Apr 3, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	21 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.