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Coastal Flood Statement 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at May 11, 2011, 3:29 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia; Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2011, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood statement 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 coastal flood statement went out at May 11, 2:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 2:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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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.