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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Wakefield, VA

March 16, 201410 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this winter storm warning at Mar 16, 2014, 3:22 AM EDT for 10 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Mar 16, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 18 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2014, 3:22 AM EDT (07:22 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 17, 2014, 12:03 PM EDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Caroline County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 16, 2:38 AM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:38 AM EDT, 44 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
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, 1:53 PM EDT	High Surf Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	71 hr
Mar 16, 2:36 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Worcester	20 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Virginia, 2014 Winter Storm Warnings in Maryland, 2014 Every winter storm warning 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.