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Coastal Flood Statement 14, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 5, 2017Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at May 5, 2017, 3:16 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2017, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2017, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 13 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 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 303 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 May 5, 3:16 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:16 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 12:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 12:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 12:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 12:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 2:58 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
258 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 AM     TORNADO          2 SSE MOUNT GOULD       36.10N 76.75W
05/05/2017                   BERTIE             NC   NWS STORM SURVEY

            AN EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY TO THE
            WEST OF THE CHOWAN RIVER IN BERTIE COUNTY
            BEFORE MOVING INTO CHOWAN COUNTY. TREES WERE
            SNAPPED.

&&

MRD

Local storm report, May 5, 3:13 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
313 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0912 AM     TSTM WND DMG     ELIZABETH CITY          36.30N 76.22W
05/05/2017                   PASQUOTANK         NC   EMERGENCY MNGR

            WIDESPREAD TREES DOWN ACROSS DOWNTOWN AREA.

&&

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 5:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	43 min
May 5, 5:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	50 min
May 5, 5:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	38 min
May 5, 5:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward	48 min
May 5, 5:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton	47 min
May 5, 6:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Hanover, Nottoway and 4 more	56 min
May 5, 6:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	30 min
May 5, 6:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Nottoway, Powhatan	24 min
May 5, 6:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Nottoway, Sussex, City of Emporia	52 min
May 5, 6:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie	26 min
May 5, 6:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Chesterfield, Hanover, City of Richmond	50 min
May 5, 7:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, City of Richmond	32 min
May 5, 7:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Henrico, James City and 9 more	40 min
May 5, 7:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William and 4 more	51 min
May 5, 7:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk	43 min
May 5, 7:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, Henrico, James City, King and Queen and 9 more	51 min
May 5, 8:02 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	28 min
May 5, 8:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk	52 min
May 5, 8:20 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		85 min
May 5, 8:22 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		83 min
May 5, 8:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	34 min
May 5, 8:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	33 min
May 5, 8:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	46 min
May 5, 8:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews and 5 more	50 min
May 5, 9:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	60 min
May 5, 9:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton	58 min
May 5, 9:44 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		61 min
May 5, 9:49 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		56 min
May 5, 10:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		62 min
May 5, 12:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex, City of Emporia	50 min
May 5, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Powhatan	39 min
May 5, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Lunenburg	46 min
May 5, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland	27 min
May 5, 5:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Buckingham, Fluvanna	47 hr
May 5, 5:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	63 hr
May 5, 5:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Fluvanna	16 hr
May 5, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover	27 min
May 5, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland	37 min
May 5, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Goochland, Hanover, Louisa	36 min
May 5, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover	27 min
May 5, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline	48 min
May 5, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin	51 min
May 5, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	46 min
May 5, 7:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry	32 min
May 5, 6:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Bertie	23 min
May 5, 7:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan	32 min
May 5, 7:34 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Bertie	26 min
May 5, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	45 min
May 5, 9:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	45 min
May 5, 9:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	56 min
May 5, 10:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	67 min
May 5, 11:02 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dorchester	4 hr

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Coastal Flood Statements in Maryland, 2017 Every coastal flood statement in 2017

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.