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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 12, 2011King and Queen County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT for King and Queen County, Virginia. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County King and Queen County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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 134 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 12, 2:34 PM EDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:34 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 2:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
208 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

MDZ022>025-VAZ099-100-131815-
WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES-ACCOMACK-
NORTHAMPTON VA-
208 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF
MARYLAND AND THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

MDZ021-VAZ048-049-062>064-072>078-084>086-131815-
DORCHESTER-FLUVANNA-LOUISA-GOOCHLAND-HANOVER-CAROLINE-KING WILLIAM-
KING AND QUEEN-ESSEX-WESTMORELAND-RICHMOND-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-
GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-
208 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 467 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF
MARYLAND...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE
PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA AND THE
PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.

NCZ017-102-131815-
INLAND CURRITUCK-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-
208 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EDT MONDAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH
CAROLINA AND THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   AIR QUALITY ALERT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   AIR QUALITY ALERT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

ANZ630>634-650-652-654-656-658-131815-
CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM SMITH POINT TO WINDMILL POINT VA-
CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM WINDMILL POINT TO NEW POINT COMFORT VA-
CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM NEW POINT COMFORT TO LITTLE CREEK VA-
CURRITUCK SOUND-
CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM LITTLE CREEK TO CAPE HENRY VA...INCLUDING THE
CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE TUNNEL-
COASTAL WATERS FROM FENWICK ISLAND DE TO CHINCOTEAGUE VA OUT TO
20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM CHINCOTEAGUE TO PARRAMORE ISLAND VA OUT TO 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM PARRAMORE ISLAND TO CAPE CHARLES LIGHT VA OUT TO
20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE CHARLES LIGHT VA TO NC VA BORDER OUT TO
20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM NC VA BORDER TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT NC OUT TO
20 NM-
208 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CHESAPEAKE
BAY...THE SOUTHERN CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE MID ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS
AND CURRITUCK SOUND.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

VAZ060-061-065>071-079>083-087>094-131815-
PRINCE EDWARD-CUMBERLAND-MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-
POWHATAN-CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-
CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GREENSVILLE-SUSSEX-SURRY-JAMES CITY-YORK-
SOUTHAMPTON-ISLE OF WIGHT-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON-
208 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 467 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST
CENTRAL VIRGINIA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL
VIRGINIA...THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF
CENTRAL VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.

NCZ012>016-030>032-VAZ095>098-131815-
NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-BERTIE-CHOWAN-
PERQUIMANS-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH-
208 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH
CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH HAMPTON
ROADS VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 2:38 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
238 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

VAZ048-049-061-062-121945-
CUMBERLAND VA-FLUVANNA VA-GOOCHLAND VA-LOUISA VA-
238 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT...

AT 238 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 18 MILES NORTH OF BOSWELLS TAVERN TO 24
MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE MONTICELLO...OR FROM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CULPEPER TO 17 MILES NORTH OF BENT CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ANTIOCH AROUND 255 PM EDT...
  WALDROP AROUND 300 PM EDT...
  ZION CROSSROADS AROUND 305 PM EDT...
  SHORES AROUND 310 PM EDT...
  DIXIE AROUND 315 PM EDT...

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU HEAR
THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE INTO
A SAFE SHELTER BEFORE THESE STORMS REACH YOUR AREA. REMAIN INDOORS
UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

LAT...LON 3814 7821 3814 7812 3816 7809 3814 7801
      3812 7797 3810 7783 3807 7778 3771 7808
      3775 7817 3769 7825 3769 7827 3773 7837
      3774 7843 3777 7848 3781 7849

JM

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:13 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
313 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

MDZ024-122015-
INLAND WORCESTER MD-
313 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER INLAND WORCESTER COUNTY...

AT 312 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL WORCESTER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12
MILES NORTHWEST OF OCEAN CITY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR BISHOP AT 330 PM EDT...SHOWELL AT 335 PM
EDT...BISHOPVILLE AT 340 PM EDT.

WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU HEAR
THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE INTO
A SAFE SHELTER BEFORE THESE STORMS REACH YOUR AREA. REMAIN INDOORS
UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

LAT...LON 3834 7517 3842 7532 3846 7531 3846 7513

JM

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
321 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

VAZ072>074-122000-
ESSEX VA-KING AND QUEEN VA-KING WILLIAM VA-
321 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH EAST-CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MILLERS TAVERN...OR ABOUT OVER SAINT
STEPHENS CHURCH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR MILLERS TAVERN AT 335 PM EDT...HOWERTONS
AT 340 PM EDT...HENLEY FORK AT 345 PM EDT...BRUINGTON AT 350 PM
EDT...CROUCH AT 355 PM EDT...STEVENSVILLE AT 400 PM EDT.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE
INTO A SAFE SHELTER BEFORE THESE STORMS REACH YOUR AREA. REMAIN
INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

LAT...LON 3774 7678 3766 7701 3787 7707 3794 7694

JM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	31 min
Jun 11, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, Prince George, Sussex, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more	59 min
Jun 11, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway	42 min
Jun 11, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, Prince George, Sussex, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more	9 min
Jun 11, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Sussex, City of Franklin, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk and 2 more	59 min
Jun 11, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex, City of Emporia	45 min
Jun 11, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		85 min
Jun 11, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	65 min
Jun 11, 9:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	62 min
Jun 11, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	56 min
Jun 11, 10:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach	2 hr
Jun 12, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna, Louisa	67 min
Jun 12, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland	39 min
Jun 12, 4:03 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		24 hr
Jun 12, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan, Prince Edward	42 min
Jun 12, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward	46 min
Jun 12, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	47 min
Jun 12, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Newport News	23 min
Jun 12, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Westmoreland	56 min
Jun 12, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Westmoreland	23 min
Jun 12, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		58 min
Jun 12, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, Richmond, Westmoreland	40 min
Jun 12, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Richmond	31 min
Jun 12, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton, City of Franklin	67 min
Jun 12, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen, King William, Middlesex, New Kent	63 min
Jun 11, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates, Hertford, Northampton	60 min
Jun 12, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	62 min
Jun 12, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	33 min
Jun 12, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	34 min
Jun 12, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	39 min

Nearby

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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.