1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 30, 2:31 PM EST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 330 PM EST MON JUN 30 2003 CURRENT CNVCTN...TRIGGERED BY LOCAL CNVRGNC BOUNDARIES...CONTS TO TRACK E. CNVCTN PRODUCING NEW OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND BASED ON SAT PIX AND RADAR TRENDS...AREAS ALG AND S OF FVX TO RIC TO TAPPAHANNOCK HV BEST CHCS FOR SCT TSTMS THS EVE...A FEW CNVCTV ELEMENTS ALSO SEEN OVR NRN VA...CUD AFFECT LOUISA TO CAROLINE AND DORCHESTER COUNTIES LTR THS EVE...BUT MORE WDLY SCT. MID/HGH CLOUDS FROM UPR RIDGING ARND TS BILL WL KP MOST AREAS PC TO MSTLY CDY THRU TNGT. WK SFC HGH CONTS TO TRY TO BUILD INTO THE REGION TMRW...BUT VRY LTL UPR DYNMCS OR UPR CONFLUENCE DOWNSTREAM TO SUPPORT A CLEAN SFC FRNTL PASSAGE. ENHNCD SEA BREEZE AT COAST ALG WTH OURFLOWS FROM CNVCTN MAY BE THE ONLY REFLECTION OF THE SFC FRNT...AND SOME LGT ONSHORE SFC FLOW WL DOMINATE TMRW...ALG WTH WDLY SCT CNVCTN AGN IN AREAS OF LOCALIZED WK SFC CNVRGNC. NEXT ISSUE IS THE REMNANTS OF TS BILL. UPR IMPULSE CURRENTLY IN WTR VPR IMAGERY AND UPR PLOTS OVER KS/MO/AR/OK AREA...INFLUENCING THE RATHER STEADY FORWARD MVMT OF BILL INTO NRN GULF COAST. UPR RIDGING AHD OF BILL CONT TO AMPLIFY. INTERACTION OF THESE 2 UPR IMPULSES WL DETERMINE WHETHER BILL CONTS ITS STDY MVMT...OR SLOWS ITS MVMT...IF THE LLVL CIRCULATION GETS CUT OFF FROM UPR STEERING... WHCH CUD HAPPEN IF UPR RDG CRUSHES THE UPR IMPULSE CURRENTLY AIDING ITS STEERING. SINCE TRACKING REMNANTS OF TROPICAL SYSTEMS IS A VRY LOW CONFIDENCE BUSINESS...RAIN CHCS WED NGT THRU THU NGT CLOSELY CORRELATED WTH TPC FCST TRACK. UPR FLO REMAINS VRY WK AND ANY RAIN CHCS FRI THRU MON HINGED MSTLY ON MESOSCALE AND LOCAL FEATURES. A LOOSE CONSENSUS IS SLOWLY COMING TOGETHER FOR A SFC BNDRY TO TRACK INTO THE AREA OVR THE WEEKEND...BUT AS USUAL...DIFFERENCES IN TIMING BETWEEN THE VARIOUS SOURCES OF GDNC...SO NO CHGS TO XTND FCST UNTIL SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES BECOME CLEARER. ON THE CSTL WTRS...SFC FLO REMAINS QUITE WK...OUTSIDE OF STGR TSTMS WHERE GUSTS WUD IMPACT BOATERS. SBY 71 85 66 84 / 20 30 10 30 OXB 73 80 70 79 / 20 30 10 30 ECG 73 85 72 83 / 30 40 30 30 ORF 73 84 72 82 / 30 40 30 30 PHF 74 84 72 83 / 30 40 30 30 AKQ 73 86 71 84 / 30 40 30 30 RIC 72 85 70 85 / 30 30 10 30 FVX 71 86 69 85 / 30 40 30 50 .AKQ... .MD...NONE. .NC...NONE. .VA...NONE. NS
MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-301600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 535 AM EDT MON JUN 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...MUCH OF CENTRAL...AND ALL OF EASTERN VIRGINIA...AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE...HAVE BEEN OUTLOOKED IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TG THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN WAKEFIELD, VA CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING (LOWER CASE): WEATHER.NOAA.GOV/AKQ.
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:24 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Couple of trees down and small outbuilding destroyed.
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