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Coastal Flood Statement 1, NWS Wakefield, VA

January 27, 2012Dorchester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Jan 27, 2012, 6:29 PM EST for Dorchester County, Maryland. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 27, 2012, 6:29 PM EST (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 2012, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Dorchester County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at Jan 27, 3:59 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 3:59 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 27, 3:53 PM EST, 2 hours 36 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
Jan 27, 7:25 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	65 min
Jan 27, 7:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	30 min
Jan 27, 8:20 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, James City, Southampton, Surry, York, City of Chesapeake and 8 more	55 min
Jan 27, 8:30 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		90 min
Jan 27, 9:00 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	60 min
Jan 27, 9:12 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		93 min
Jan 27, 10:04 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		86 min
Jan 27, 11:01 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		59 min
Jan 27, 4:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans	45 min
Jan 27, 5:25 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	20 min
Jan 27, 9:42 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans	48 min
Jan 27, 10:52 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	53 min

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Maryland, 2012 Every coastal flood statement in 2012

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.