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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 16, 2011Dorchester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2011, 11:31 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Maryland. It was in force for 59 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 16, 2011, 11:31 PM EDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2011, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Dorchester County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 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 16, 10:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 10:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 10:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 9:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:31 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:00 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:31 PM EDT, 0 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
Jun 16, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George	58 min
Jun 16, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City, Surry, Sussex, City of Williamsburg	54 min
Jun 16, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	53 min
Jun 16, 11:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland	60 min
Jun 16, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	56 min
Jun 16, 11:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Powhatan	58 min
Jun 17, 12:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Nottoway	61 min
Jun 17, 1:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	57 min
Jun 17, 1:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Mecklenburg, Nottoway	58 min
Jun 17, 2:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton	63 min
Jun 17, 4:31 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	5 hr
Jun 17, 4:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	76 min
Jun 17, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna, Powhatan	57 min
Jun 17, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Fluvanna	41 min
Jun 17, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Powhatan	35 min
Jun 17, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna	63 min
Jun 17, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico	53 min
Jun 17, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, Louisa	62 min
Jun 17, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Sussex	45 min
Jun 17, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Powhatan	62 min
Jun 17, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Sussex, City of Franklin	35 min
Jun 17, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Nottoway	57 min
Jun 17, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, Powhatan and 1 more	60 min
Jun 17, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	66 min
Jun 17, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	42 min
Jun 17, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	39 min
Jun 17, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight	34 min
Jun 17, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Sussex	40 min
Jun 17, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	55 min
Jun 17, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton	42 min
Jun 16, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	58 min
Jun 16, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	60 min
Jun 16, 10:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	29 min
Jun 16, 10:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	59 min
Jun 17, 12:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	45 min
Jun 17, 4:31 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	5 hr
Jun 17, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	63 min
Jun 17, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	36 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2011 Every special weather 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.