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Coastal Flood Statement 31, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 21, 2016Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Oct 21, 2016, 4:53 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It took effect at Oct 21, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 21, 2016, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 21, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
Expired
Oct 21, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Oct 20, 7:59 PM EDT, 20 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 7:59 PM EDT, 20 hours 54 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.