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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA

February 5, 2010Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high wind warning at Feb 5, 2010, 4:05 PM EST for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Feb 5, 2010, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 26 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: Feb 5, 2010, 4:05 PM EST (21:05 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 5, 2010, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 6, 2010, 9:03 PM EST
In force: 26 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 21:08 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind warning 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 wind warning went out at Feb 5, 4:00 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 4:00 PM EST, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 5, 3:48 PM EST, 17 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
Feb 5, 1:37 AM EST	Storm Warning	AKQ		45 hr
Feb 5, 3:26 AM EST	High Surf Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	51 hr
Feb 5, 3:52 AM EST	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 3 more	41 hr
Feb 5, 7:05 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Mathews, New Kent	8 hr
Feb 5, 3:29 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Greensville, James City, Lunenburg and 14 more	26 hr
Feb 5, 3:26 AM EST	Coastal Flood Warning	AKQ	Worcester	49 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Virginia, 2010 High Wind Warnings in North Carolina, 2010 High Wind Warnings in Maryland, 2010 Every high wind warning in 2010

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.