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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 16, 20165 counties in North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2016, 4:02 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 2016, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 2266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 16, 3:56 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:56 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 3:06 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
306 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

MDZ021>025-VAZ048-061-062-064-069-075>078-509>511-517-519-521-522-
171915-
DORCHESTER-WICOMICO-SOMERSET-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES-
FLUVANNA-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-CAROLINE-POWHATAN-WESTMORELAND-
RICHMOND-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-WESTERN LOUISA-EASTERN LOUISA-
WESTERN HANOVER-WESTERN KING WILLIAM-WESTERN KING AND QUEEN-
WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-
306 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MARYLAND...CENTRAL
VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EASTERN VIRGINIA AND NORTH
CENTRAL VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING HOURS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL PRODUCE
GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ060-065>068-079>090-092-093-095>100-
512>516-518-520-523>525-171915-
NORTHAMPTON-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-WESTERN CURRITUCK-
BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-EASTERN CURRITUCK-PRINCE EDWARD-MECKLENBURG-
LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-
CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-GREENSVILLE-
SUSSEX-SURRY-JAMES CITY-SOUTHAMPTON-ISLE OF WIGHT-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-
SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH-ACCOMACK-EASTERN HANOVER-
WESTERN CHESTERFIELD-EASTERN CHESTERFIELD (INCLUDING COL. HEIGHTS)-
WESTERN HENRICO (INCLUDING THE CITY OF RICHMOND)-EASTERN HENRICO-
EASTERN KING WILLIAM-EASTERN KING AND QUEEN-YORK-NEWPORT NEWS-
HAMPTON/POQUOSON-
306 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST NORTH
CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...EASTERN
VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL
HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:02 PM EDT, 0 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
Jul 15, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	20 min
Jul 15, 8:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, Southampton, City of Emporia, City of Franklin	37 min
Jul 15, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City	50 min
Jul 15, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	47 min
Jul 15, 8:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	42 min
Jul 15, 8:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin	16 min
Jul 15, 9:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Lunenburg, Nottoway and 2 more	43 min
Jul 15, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, James City, Surry, City of Williamsburg	51 min
Jul 15, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Nottoway, Prince George, Southampton and 3 more	46 min
Jul 15, 9:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton	4 hr
Jul 15, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Dinwiddie, Gloucester, Henrico, Isle of Wight, James City and 14 more	65 min
Jul 16, 12:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	39 min
Jul 16, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	50 min
Jul 16, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Louisa	38 min
Jul 16, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	45 min
Jul 16, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	49 min
Jul 16, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Caroline, Cumberland, Goochland, Hanover, Powhatan	50 min
Jul 16, 6:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Greensville, Sussex	116 min
Jul 16, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Petersburg	47 min
Jul 16, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	51 min
Jul 16, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Caroline, Chesterfield, Essex, Hanover, Henrico and 8 more	49 min
Jul 16, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	44 min
Jul 16, 7:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Southampton, Sussex	2 hr
Jul 15, 8:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Currituck	116 min
Jul 16, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	51 min
Jul 16, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	38 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2016 Every special weather 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.