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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Sep 4, 2026, 7:27 PM EDT for Isle of Wight County, Southampton County, City of Franklin, Virginia. It was in force for 19 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 4, 2026, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2026, 7:46 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties City of Franklin, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Southampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 12:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 97 min | |
| Sep 4, 12:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 62 min |
| Sep 4, 1:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland | 43 min |
| Sep 4, 1:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 20 min |
| Sep 4, 1:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 46 min |
| Sep 4, 2:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 65 min | |
| Sep 4, 2:11 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 49 min | |
| Sep 4, 2:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 27 min |
| Sep 4, 2:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 45 min |
| Sep 4, 2:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 26 min |
| Sep 4, 3:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 45 min | |
| Sep 4, 3:06 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 84 min | |
| Sep 4, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 40 min | |
| Sep 4, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 58 min | |
| Sep 4, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 52 min |
| Sep 4, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, Louisa | 48 min |
| Sep 4, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 29 min |
| Sep 4, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia | 47 min |
| Sep 4, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince Edward | 39 min |
| Sep 4, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond | 49 min |
| Sep 4, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa | 41 min |
| Sep 4, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 28 min |
| Sep 4, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Powhatan | 46 min |
| Sep 4, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, Prince George, City of Hopewell | 40 min |
| Sep 4, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway | 38 min |
| Sep 4, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Louisa and 1 more | 50 min |
| Sep 4, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Dinwiddie | 27 min |
| Sep 4, 6:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway and 2 more | 43 min |
| Sep 4, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights and 2 more | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 43 min |
| Sep 4, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia | 41 min |
| Sep 4, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Middlesex | 52 min |
| Sep 4, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk | 46 min |
| Sep 4, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk | 37 min |
| Sep 4, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 40 min |
| Sep 4, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gates | 50 min |
| Sep 4, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 43 min |
| Sep 4, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 40 min |
| Sep 4, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 52 min |
| Sep 4, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Perquimans | 34 min |
| Sep 4, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 50 min |
| Sep 4, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 31 min |
| Sep 4, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 52 min |
| Sep 4, 4:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 21 min |
| Sep 4, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 38 min |
| Sep 4, 4:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 52 min |
| Sep 4, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gates | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 49 min |
| Sep 4, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 52 min |
| Sep 4, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 26 min |
| Sep 4, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 29 min |
| Sep 4, 7:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Bertie, Northampton | 105 min |
| Sep 4, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 44 min |
| Sep 4, 12:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset | 45 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.