Alert archive / Virginia / High Surf Advisories in 2014
High Surf Advisory 2, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high surf advisory at Mar 16, 2014, 1:53 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Mar 17, 2014, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 61 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2014, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2014, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2014, 1:13 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 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 17:52 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 Mar 16, 1:46 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 1:46 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 3:58 AM EDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 358 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 MDZ021>025-VAZ072>078-085-170800- DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES- KING WILLIAM-KING AND QUEEN-ESSEX-WESTMORELAND-RICHMOND- NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-MIDDLESEX- 358 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM EDT MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA AND THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WARNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. VAZ060-067-068-070-071-082>084-086-090-099-100-170800- PRINCE EDWARD-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO-CHARLES CITY- NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS-JAMES CITY-ACCOMACK-NORTHAMPTON VA- 358 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM EDT MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA...THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. VAZ065-066-079>081-087>089-091-094-170800- MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-GREENSVILLE- SUSSEX-SURRY-YORK-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON- 358 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 5 PM EDT MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ092-093-095>098-170800- NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK- BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-SOUTHAMPTON- ISLE OF WIGHT-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH- 358 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. RAIN WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT AND MONDAY BEFORE TAPERING OFF TO LIGTH RAIN AND DRIZZLE LATE MONDAY. GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS BETWEEN 35 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED ALONG COASTAL SECTIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ048-049-061>064-069-170800- FLUVANNA-LOUISA-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-HANOVER-CAROLINE-POWHATAN- 358 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM EDT MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WARNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:22 AM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Lancaster, Middlesex and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:22 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Cumberland and 28 more | 56 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:33 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 21 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:36 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Worcester | 20 hr |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in Virginia, 2014High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2014High Surf Advisories in Maryland, 2014Every high surf advisory in 2014
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.