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Coastal Flood Statement 9, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 10, 2015Northumberland County, Westmoreland County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Aug 10, 2015, 5:06 PM EDT for Northumberland County, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It took effect at Aug 10, 2015, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2015, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 10, 2015, 10:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 11, 2015, 1:04 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Northumberland County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 10, 4:18 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 4:18 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 3:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 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
Aug 10, 3:38 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		42 hr
Aug 9, 11:22 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	4 hr
Aug 10, 10:05 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico	4 hr
Aug 10, 5:06 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico	10 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.