Alert archive / Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2011

Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 30, 20114 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Sep 30, 2011, 6:21 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 54 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: Sep 30, 2011, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2011, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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 Sep 29, 6:44 PM EDT, 23 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 6:44 PM EDT, 23 hours 37 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 30, 3:37 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		68 hr
Sep 30, 11:24 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland, Westmoreland	9 hr
Sep 30, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	59 min
Sep 30, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen	65 min
Sep 30, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry	44 min
Sep 30, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lancaster, Middlesex	57 min
Sep 30, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		86 min
Sep 30, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Newport News, City of Suffolk	59 min
Sep 30, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	53 min
Sep 30, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		92 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 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.