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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 14, 20068 counties in Virginia; Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this freeze warning at Oct 14, 2006, 4:30 AM EDT for 8 counties in Virginia; Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It took effect at Oct 15, 2006, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 14, 2006, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 15, 2006, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 15, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Dorchester County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Amelia County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 4:30 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryAKQBrunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Greensville, James City and 15 more28 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2006Freeze Warnings in Maryland, 2006Every freeze warning in 2006

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.