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Coastal Flood Statement 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

February 10, 2015City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Feb 10, 2015, 5:30 AM EST for City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It took effect at Feb 10, 2015, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 10, 2015, 5:30 AM EST (10:30 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 10, 2015, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 10, 2015, 2:49 PM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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 coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at Feb 10, 4:10 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 4:10 AM EST, 1 hour 20 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
Feb 10, 1:18 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	9 hr
Feb 10, 3:32 AM EST	High Surf Advisory	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	36 hr
Feb 10, 5:30 AM EST	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Northampton	22 hr
Feb 10, 2:49 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	12 hr
Feb 10, 3:31 AM EST	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Currituck	24 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Virginia, 2015 Every coastal flood statement in 2015

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.