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Beach Hazards Statement 4, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 3, 2016, 5:00 AM EDT for Worcester County, Maryland; Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2016, 5:00 AM EDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
588 WHUS41 KAKQ 030900 CFWAKQ COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 500 AM EDT SAT SEP 3 2016 MDZ025-NCZ102-VAZ098>100-031700- /O.NEW.KAKQ.BH.S.0004.160903T0900Z-160904T0000Z/ MARYLAND BEACHES-EASTERN CURRITUCK-VIRGINIA BEACH-ACCOMACK-NORTHAMPTON- 500 AM EDT SAT SEP 3 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS: HIGH RISK FOR DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. * LOCATION: MARYLAND BEACHES...CURRITUCK...VIRGINIA BEACH... ACCOMACK COUNTY ATLANTIC BEACHES...AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ATLANTIC BEACHES. * TIMING AND TIDES...RIP CURRENTS ARE STRONGEST A FEW OF HOURS ON EITHER SIDE OF LOW TIDE. LOW TIDE WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 300 AND 500 PM THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS RIP CURRENTS... LONGSHORE CURRENTS...LARGE BREAKING WAVES AND OTHER HAZARDS ARE POSSIBLE. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS && $$ $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 4:05 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 4 days |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in Virginia, 2016Beach Hazards Statements in Maryland, 2016Beach Hazards Statements in North Carolina, 2016Every beach hazards statement in 2016
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.