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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 3, 2014Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia; Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high surf advisory at Jul 3, 2014, 4:32 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Jul 4, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2014, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 4, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 4, 2014, 4:09 PM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Worcester County, MD, Accomack County, VA, Northampton County, VA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jul 3, 4:01 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 4:01 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 1:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:39 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:22 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:24 PM EDT, 8 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
Jul 2, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	64 min
Jul 2, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Fluvanna, Louisa	43 min
Jul 2, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	48 min
Jul 2, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Goochland, Louisa	25 min
Jul 2, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, Powhatan	65 min
Jul 2, 11:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	36 min
Jul 3, 3:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	AKQ	Caroline, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Lancaster, Northumberland and 4 more	18 hr
Jul 3, 5:21 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		58 hr
Jul 3, 7:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	31 min
Jul 3, 7:54 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		96 min
Jul 3, 8:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		52 min
Jul 3, 9:15 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		60 min
Jul 3, 9:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		95 min
Jul 3, 10:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		50 min
Jul 3, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	66 min
Jul 3, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Louisa	53 min
Jul 3, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Prince Edward	66 min
Jul 3, 4:32 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	51 hr
Jul 3, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	14 min
Jul 3, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Louisa	44 min
Jul 3, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, City of Richmond	40 min
Jul 3, 5:38 AM EDT	Hurricane Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	30 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Virginia, 2014 High Surf Advisories in Maryland, 2014 Every 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.