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Coastal Flood Statement 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Jan 10, 2016, 6:02 AM EST for Gloucester County, Mathews County, Virginia. It took effect at Jan 10, 2016, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2016, 6:02 AM EST (11:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 10, 2016, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2016, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Gloucester County, VA, Mathews County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jan 10, 4:05 AM EST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 4:05 AM EST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 3:11 AM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 24 hr | |
| Jan 10, 6:02 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Lancaster, Northampton, Northumberland, Westmoreland | 9 hr |
| Jan 10, 10:37 AM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 9 hr |
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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.