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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Mar 2, 2012, 4:11 PM EST for 16 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 64 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
- Mar 2, 2012, 4:11 PM EST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Charles City County, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, James City County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Mar 2, 3:59 PM EST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 3:59 PM EST, 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 403 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 MDZ021>025-VAZ048-049-060>086-090-091-099-100-032115- DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES- FLUVANNA-LOUISA-PRINCE EDWARD-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-HANOVER-CAROLINE- MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-POWHATAN-CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO- KING WILLIAM-KING AND QUEEN-ESSEX-WESTMORELAND-RICHMOND- NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE- CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-JAMES CITY-YORK- ACCOMACK-NORTHAMPTON VA- 403 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA...THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST WITH A WARM FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST LATE TONIGHT WITH A COLD FRONT...CLOSER TO DAYBREAK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SHOWERS WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY MORNING. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT BY EARLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ087>089-092>098-032115- NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK- BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-GREENSVILLE-SUSSEX- SURRY-SOUTHAMPTON-ISLE OF WIGHT-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON- NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH- 403 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS VIRGINIA AND THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST WITH A WARM FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST LATE TONIGHT WITH A COLD FRONT...CLOSER TO DAYBREAK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SHOWERS WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT BY EARLY SATURDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ650-652-032115- COASTAL WATERS FROM FENWICK ISLAND DE TO CHINCOTEAGUE VA OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CHINCOTEAGUE TO PARRAMORE ISLAND VA OUT TO 20 NM- 403 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MID ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ654-656-658-032115- COASTAL WATERS FROM PARRAMORE ISLAND TO CAPE CHARLES LIGHT VA OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE CHARLES LIGHT VA TO NC VA BORDER OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM NC VA BORDER TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT NC OUT TO 20 NM- 403 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MID ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ630>634-032115- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM SMITH POINT TO WINDMILL POINT VA- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM WINDMILL POINT TO NEW POINT COMFORT VA- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM NEW POINT COMFORT TO LITTLE CREEK VA- CURRITUCK SOUND- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM LITTLE CREEK TO CAPE HENRY VA...INCLUDING THE CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE TUNNEL- 403 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST SATURDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE LOWER CHESAPEAKE BAY AND CURRITUCK SOUND. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DEROSA
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:47 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 48 hr | |
| Mar 2, 1:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 43 min |
| Mar 2, 2:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Sussex | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 2:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 3:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Surry, Sussex | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 3:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, New Kent and 7 more | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 3:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Louisa, Powhatan | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 4:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King William, New Kent, City of Richmond | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 4:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Cumberland, Hanover, King William, Powhatan, City of Richmond | 64 min |
| Mar 2, 5:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William and 3 more | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 6:23 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent | 37 min |
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Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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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.