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Coastal Flood Statement 15, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 17, 20169 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Jun 17, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT for 9 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Gloucester County, VA, James City County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Northampton County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 17, 2:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 12:11 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:09 AM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:13 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 12:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 28 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 16, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa	49 min
Jun 16, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover	48 min
Jun 16, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland	52 min
Jun 16, 8:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, King William and 2 more	50 min
Jun 16, 8:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover	33 min
Jun 16, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, Powhatan and 1 more	45 min
Jun 16, 9:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover	4 hr
Jun 16, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster and 4 more	53 min
Jun 16, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		2 hr
Jun 16, 9:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, City of Richmond	29 min
Jun 16, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Gloucester, Hanover, Henrico, James City and 4 more	47 min
Jun 16, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		2 hr
Jun 16, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Cumberland	57 min
Jun 16, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, James City, Prince George and 4 more	23 min
Jun 16, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Essex, Gloucester, Henrico, James City and 11 more	62 min
Jun 16, 10:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Nottoway	41 min
Jun 16, 10:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Dinwiddie, James City, Prince George, Surry, Sussex and 6 more	44 min
Jun 16, 10:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Goochland, Henrico, Powhatan and 4 more	3 hr
Jun 16, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway	61 min
Jun 16, 11:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Dinwiddie, Nottoway	28 min
Jun 16, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Isle of Wight, Lancaster, Mathews, Surry, York and 8 more	50 min
Jun 16, 11:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	51 min
Jun 16, 11:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton, Sussex, City of Franklin	48 min
Jun 17, 3:30 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Surry, City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	10 hr
Jun 17, 6:50 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	25 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Virginia, 2016 Every coastal flood 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.