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Coastal Flood Statement 24, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at May 30, 2017, 10:17 AM EDT for 10 counties in Virginia; Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It took effect at May 30, 2017, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2017, 10:17 AM EDT (14:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 30, 2017, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Accomack County, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Gloucester County, VA, James City County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Surry County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 30, 7:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 7:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Middlesex | 40 min |
| May 29, 9:43 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 21 hr | |
| May 30, 10:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 36 min |
| May 30, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 35 min |
| May 30, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline | 52 min |
| May 30, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Westmoreland | 43 min |
| May 30, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Richmond, Westmoreland | 52 min |
| May 30, 4:11 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 15 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in Virginia, 2017Coastal Flood Statements in Maryland, 2017Every 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.