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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 15, 20144 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Oct 15, 2014, 7:49 AM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 41 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: Oct 15, 2014, 7:49 AM EDT (11:49 UTC)
Expired: Oct 15, 2014, 8:30 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Brunswick County, VA, City of Emporia, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Greensville County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 412 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.3

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The text

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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 15, 5:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Nottoway	37 min
Oct 15, 6:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	43 min
Oct 15, 6:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Nottoway, Powhatan	45 min
Oct 15, 6:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Nottoway	46 min
Oct 15, 7:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Goochland, Powhatan	38 min
Oct 15, 9:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Hanover, City of Richmond	64 min
Oct 15, 9:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	2 hr
Oct 15, 10:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, City of Richmond	59 min
Oct 15, 11:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	28 min
Oct 15, 12:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights and 3 more	50 min
Oct 15, 12:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	57 min
Oct 15, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, King and Queen, King William, New Kent	65 min
Oct 15, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, Richmond, Westmoreland	57 min
Oct 15, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	41 min

Nearby

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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.