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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2015, 4:25 PM EDT for City of Franklin, Virginia. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 7, 2015, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2015, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
County City of Franklin, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 236 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Aug 7, 3:58 PM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:58 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 8:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Amelia, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Prince George and 5 more | 117 min |
| Aug 6, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gloucester, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, Middlesex, New Kent | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 8:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chesterfield, City of Richmond | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster and 4 more | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 10:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Middlesex and 3 more | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond and 1 more | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 4:31 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 3 days | |
| Aug 7, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:37 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 26 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 5:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Camden, Gates, Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 12:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester | 43 min |
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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.