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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 24, 2025Lunenburg County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 2025, 5:37 PM EDT for Lunenburg County, Virginia. 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 24, 2025, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Sep 24, 2025, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lunenburg County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 23, 7:31 PM EDT, 22 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 7:31 PM EDT, 22 hours 6 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 24, 1:15 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Sep 24, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway	50 min
Sep 24, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Richmond	49 min
Sep 24, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Nottoway	51 min
Sep 24, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	28 min
Sep 24, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway	19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.