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High Surf Advisory 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 31, 2006Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high surf advisory at Aug 31, 2006, 3:36 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Sep 1, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 31, 2006, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 1, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 2, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, 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 this high surf advisory went out at Aug 31, 10:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 10:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 31, 6:53 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	11 hr
Aug 31, 4:29 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Charles City, Gloucester, Greensville, James City, Lancaster and 18 more	32 hr
Aug 31, 6:06 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 2 more	23 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Virginia, 2006 High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2006 High Surf Advisories in Maryland, 2006 Every high surf advisory 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.