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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2026, 3:20 PM EDT for Caroline County, Hanover County, King William County, Virginia. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 4, 2026, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Caroline County, VA, Hanover County, VA, King William County, VA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:52 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | AKQ | Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 45 more | 30 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | James City, City of Williamsburg | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, James City, Prince George, Surry | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 2:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | James City, Surry | 11 min |
| Jul 4, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 31 min | |
| Jul 4, 2:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Surry | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hanover | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hanover | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Sussex | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 3:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Hanover, Henrico | 77 min |
| Jul 4, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Fluvanna | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, Louisa | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Louisa | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Powhatan | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, King William, City of Colonial Heights and 2 more | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 44 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.