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High Surf Advisory 3, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high surf advisory at Oct 27, 2012, 7:51 AM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 2012, 7:51 AM EDT (11:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2012, 5:44 AM EDT
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:52 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Oct 27, 6:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 6:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 5:19 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | AKQ | Accomack, Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Storm Warning | AKQ | 59 hr | |
| Oct 27, 5:18 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Caroline, Charles City, Gloucester, James City, Lancaster and 14 more | 59 hr |
| Oct 27, 5:18 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Fluvanna and 20 more | 59 hr |
| Oct 27, 5:33 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Charles City, Gloucester, James City, Lancaster, Mathews and 12 more | 4 days |
| Oct 27, 5:33 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 23 hr |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in Virginia, 2012High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2012High Surf Advisories in Maryland, 2012Every high surf advisory 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.