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Coastal Flood Statement 14, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Dec 27, 2011, 2:23 PM EST for Accomack County, Lancaster County, Northumberland County, Virginia; Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It took effect at Dec 27, 2011, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2011, 2:23 PM EST (19:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2011, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2011, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Accomack County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Northumberland County, VA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1244 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 4:17 AM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 35 hr | |
| Dec 27, 1:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia | 46 min |
| Dec 27, 2:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Middlesex and 13 more | 29 min |
| Dec 27, 2:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, New Kent, Prince George and 4 more | 24 min |
| Dec 27, 2:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Middlesex, York, City of Chesapeake and 5 more | 25 min |
| Dec 27, 3:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 3:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent | 56 min |
| Dec 27, 3:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Hanover, Henrico and 4 more | 44 min |
| Dec 27, 4:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 13 min |
| Dec 27, 4:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Essex, Henrico, King and Queen and 10 more | 29 min |
| Dec 27, 4:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Essex, Henrico, James City, King and Queen, King William and 10 more | 42 min |
| Dec 27, 5:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 4:25 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 20 min |
| Dec 27, 4:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Worcester | 22 min |
| Dec 27, 5:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester | 32 min |
| Dec 27, 6:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Wicomico, Worcester | 44 min |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in Virginia, 2011Coastal Flood Statements in Maryland, 2011Every coastal flood statement in 2011
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.