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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Wakefield, VA

March 5, 2015Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high surf advisory at Mar 5, 2015, 11:26 AM EST for Currituck County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 5, 2015, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2015, 11:26 AM EST (16:26 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2015, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Mar 6, 2015, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Currituck County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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 high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Mar 5, 6:54 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 6:54 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 5, 4:18 AM EST, 7 hours 8 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 4, 10:05 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ		6 hr
Mar 5, 3:54 AM EST	Gale Warning	AKQ		27 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2015 Every high surf advisory 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.