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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 1, 2015Dinwiddie County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2015, 2:21 PM EDT for Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2015, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Dinwiddie County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 1, 1:58 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 1:58 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 12:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:21 PM EDT, 0 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
Jun 1, 12:01 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		13 hr
Jun 1, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	48 min
Jun 1, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	37 min
Jun 1, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, Sussex	41 min
Jun 1, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	33 min
Jun 1, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	44 min
Jun 1, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Richmond	32 min
Jun 1, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Powhatan	26 min
Jun 1, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover	31 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Hanover, Powhatan	44 min
Jun 1, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex	43 min
Jun 1, 5:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William	3 hr
Jun 1, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, King William	34 min
Jun 1, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	41 min
Jun 1, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Westmoreland	46 min
Jun 1, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	44 min
Jun 1, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews	39 min
Jun 1, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland, Goochland	50 min
Jun 1, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	44 min
Jun 1, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Dinwiddie, Goochland, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Powhatan	38 min
Jun 1, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Powhatan, City of Richmond	41 min
Jun 1, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	50 min
Jun 1, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset	41 min

Nearby

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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.