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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 20, 2026, 6:41 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Maryland. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 20, 2026, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2026, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Dorchester County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 1:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Surry | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Franklin, City of Suffolk | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 58 min | |
| Aug 20, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Suffolk | 39 min |
| Aug 20, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 56 min | |
| Aug 20, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 93 min | |
| Aug 20, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 30 min | |
| Aug 20, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 95 min | |
| Aug 20, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 18 min |
| Aug 20, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 45 min |
| Aug 20, 4:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach | 110 min |
| Aug 20, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 53 min | |
| Aug 20, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 47 min | |
| Aug 20, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chesterfield, Powhatan, City of Richmond | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Powhatan and 1 more | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg | 41 min |
| Aug 20, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent and 1 more | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 7:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 7:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 13 min |
| Aug 20, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chowan | 38 min |
| Aug 20, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 50 min |
| Aug 20, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chowan | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester | 55 min |
| Aug 20, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Wicomico | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester | 39 min |
| Aug 20, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Wicomico | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.