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Coastal Flood Statement 7, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 19, 2015Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Jul 19, 2015, 12:13 AM EDT for Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2015, 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2015, 5:33 AM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 364 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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 Jul 18, 10:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 10:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 3:35 PM EDT, 8 hours 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
335 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 2015

NCZ014>017-030>032-VAZ095>098-525-191945-
GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK-BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-
NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH-
HAMPTON/POQUOSON-
335 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH
CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS
VIRGINIA AND THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 100 TO 104 DEGREES SUNDAY...AND AROUND
105 DEGREES MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

NCZ012-013-VAZ048-060>062-064>069-075>090-092-093-509>524-191945-
NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-FLUVANNA-PRINCE EDWARD-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-
CAROLINE-MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-POWHATAN-WESTMORELAND-
RICHMOND-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-
CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-GREENSVILLE-
SUSSEX-SURRY-JAMES CITY-SOUTHAMPTON-ISLE OF WIGHT-WESTERN LOUISA-
EASTERN LOUISA-WESTERN HANOVER-EASTERN HANOVER-WESTERN CHESTERFIELD-
EASTERN CHESTERFIELD-WESTERN HENRICO-EASTERN HENRICO-
WESTERN KING WILLIAM-EASTERN KING WILLIAM-WESTERN KING AND QUEEN-
EASTERN KING AND QUEEN-WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-YORK-NEWPORT NEWS-
335 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 2015

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM EDT SUNDAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH
CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...INTERIOR
SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA
OF VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA...THE PENINSULA OF
SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   HEAT ADVISORY.

HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 105 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY AND
MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

MDZ025-NCZ102-191945-
MARYLAND BEACHES-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-
335 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF
MARYLAND AND THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 95 TO 100 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED
SUNDAY...AND AROUND 100 DEGREES MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

MDZ021>024-VAZ099-100-191945-
DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-ACCOMACK-
NORTHAMPTON VA-
335 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF
MARYLAND AND THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 100 TO 104 DEGREES SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 10:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 10:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 10:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 18, 10:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 11:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 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 18, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, New Kent, City of Williamsburg	60 min
Jul 18, 8:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	55 min
Jul 18, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	35 min
Jul 18, 8:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	King and Queen, King William, New Kent	3 hr
Jul 18, 9:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville	53 min
Jul 18, 9:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City, New Kent	49 min
Jul 18, 10:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	41 min
Jul 18, 10:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	37 min
Jul 18, 11:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Lunenburg, Prince Edward	3 hr
Jul 18, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	50 min
Jul 19, 12:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Cumberland	2 hr
Jul 19, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia	43 min
Jul 19, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	35 min
Jul 19, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	47 min
Jul 19, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	40 min
Jul 19, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Nottoway	46 min
Jul 19, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	45 min
Jul 19, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico, City of Richmond	45 min
Jul 19, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	51 min
Jul 19, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico	47 min
Jul 19, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Emporia	39 min
Jul 19, 7:54 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 37 more	24 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Maryland, 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.