Alert archive / Virginia / High Wind Watches in 2016
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high wind watch at Jan 21, 2016, 3:40 PM EST for 4 counties in Virginia; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Jan 22, 2016, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2016, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 22, 2016, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2016, 3:46 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Accomack County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 21, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 2:21 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 221 PM EST THU JAN 21 2016 MDZ021>023-NCZ012-VAZ060-065>068-077>090-092-513-514-516-518-520-522- 221930- DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-NORTHAMPTON NC-PRINCE EDWARD- MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER- BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER- MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-GREENSVILLE-SUSSEX-SURRY-JAMES CITY-SOUTHAMPTON- WESTERN CHESTERFIELD-EASTERN CHESTERFIELD-EASTERN HENRICO- EASTERN KING WILLIAM-EASTERN KING AND QUEEN-EASTERN ESSEX- 221 PM EST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA...THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ013>017-030>032-102-VAZ093-095>098-100-523>525-221930- HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK-BERTIE-CHOWAN- PERQUIMANS-OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-ISLE OF WIGHT-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH- SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH-NORTHAMPTON VA-YORK-NEWPORT NEWS- HAMPTON/POQUOSON- 221 PM EST THU JAN 21 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...THE NORTHERN OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA...INTERIOR SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS VIRGINIA...THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA AND THE PENINSULA OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A STRONG WINTER STORM WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS TO 35 TO 45 MPH LATE FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ048-061-062-064-509>511-221930- FLUVANNA-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-CAROLINE-WESTERN LOUISA-EASTERN LOUISA- WESTERN HANOVER- 221 PM EST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM FRIDAY TO 10 AM EST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WARNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ069-075-076-512-515-517-519-521-221930- POWHATAN-WESTMORELAND-RICHMOND-EASTERN HANOVER-WESTERN HENRICO- WESTERN KING WILLIAM-WESTERN KING AND QUEEN-WESTERN ESSEX- 221 PM EST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...THE MIDDLE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MDZ024-025-VAZ099-221930- INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES-ACCOMACK- 221 PM EST THU JAN 21 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND AND THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A STRONG WINTER STORM WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL GUST TO 45 TO 55 MPH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 4:24 AM EST | Gale Watch | AKQ | 12 hr | |
| Jan 21, 10:27 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 35 more | 66 hr |
| Jan 21, 1:04 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 6 hr | |
| Jan 21, 3:41 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 33 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:07 PM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 64 hr | |
| Jan 21, 4:07 PM EST | Storm Warning | AKQ | 57 hr | |
| Jan 21, 5:00 PM EST | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews, York, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News and 2 more | 56 hr |
| Jan 21, 5:31 PM EST | Coastal Flood Watch | AKQ | Accomack, James City, Northampton, Surry, York, City of Chesapeake and 5 more | 22 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Virginia, 2016High Wind Watches in Maryland, 2016Every high wind watch 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.