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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 28, 2026Isle of Wight County, Surry County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2026, 7:40 PM EDT for Isle of Wight County, Surry County, Virginia. It was in force for 33 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 28, 2026, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2026, 8:13 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Isle of Wight County, VA, Surry County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jul 28, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 2:48 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		22 hr
Jul 28, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico	48 min
Jul 28, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, James City, Prince George, Surry	46 min
Jul 28, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline	40 min
Jul 28, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		65 min
Jul 28, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	50 min
Jul 28, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, James City, Prince George, Surry, York	48 min
Jul 28, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, Lancaster, Middlesex, Richmond	43 min
Jul 28, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, James City, Surry, York, City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg	31 min
Jul 28, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	54 min
Jul 28, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	61 min
Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	50 min
Jul 28, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	51 min
Jul 28, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.