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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 26, 2012City of Chesapeake, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 26, 2012, 4:11 PM EDT for City of Chesapeake, 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: Aug 26, 2012, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County City of Chesapeake, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 2021 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

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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 Aug 26, 3:28 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 3:28 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 3:41 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 2:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 26, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 26, 4:11 PM EDT, 0 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
Aug 25, 8:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, Powhatan, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more	54 min
Aug 25, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Powhatan, City of Richmond	53 min
Aug 25, 10:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, King William, Louisa	52 min
Aug 26, 1:01 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		9 hr
Aug 26, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	52 min
Aug 26, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, Richmond and 5 more	63 min
Aug 26, 3:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Surry, York, City of Newport News and 1 more	3 hr
Aug 26, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin	44 min
Aug 26, 4:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk	65 min
Aug 26, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	38 min
Aug 26, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Middlesex	40 min
Aug 26, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		85 min
Aug 26, 5:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	89 min
Aug 26, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland and 1 more	66 min
Aug 25, 9:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Worcester	2 hr
Aug 25, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	80 min
Aug 25, 11:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	62 min
Aug 26, 12:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Worcester	2 hr
Aug 26, 6:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	48 min
Aug 26, 7:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	37 min
Aug 26, 8:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	21 min
Aug 26, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	53 min
Aug 26, 6:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	34 min
Aug 26, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	58 min
Aug 26, 7:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dorchester	2 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2012 Every special weather 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.