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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 29, 201118 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this freeze warning at Oct 29, 2011, 3:57 PM EDT for 18 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Oct 30, 2011, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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 29, 2011, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 30, 2011, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 30, 2011, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Amelia County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Caroline County, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Sussex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 29, 1:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 1:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 29, 9:26 AM EDT, 6 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 29, 10:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 27 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
Oct 28, 9:27 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 1 more	21 hr
Oct 29, 4:09 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	17 hr
Oct 29, 7:48 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews, Northumberland	13 hr
Oct 29, 8:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mathews, Northampton, York, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk and 3 more	59 min
Oct 29, 10:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	45 min
Oct 29, 1:43 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	77 min
Oct 28, 9:27 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	AKQ	Worcester	16 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2011 Every freeze warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.