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Coastal Flood Statement 10, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Jun 6, 2012, 10:45 AM EDT for 9 counties in Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Jun 6, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2012, 10:45 AM EDT (14:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 6, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2012, 5:56 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:46 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 5, 3:28 PM EDT, 19 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:28 PM EDT, 19 hours 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 5:56 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 3 more | 14 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in Virginia, 2012Coastal Flood Statements in Maryland, 2012Coastal Flood Statements in North Carolina, 2012Every 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.