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Coastal Flood Statement 29, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 26, 2017Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Jul 26, 2017, 4:29 PM EDT for Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Jul 26, 2017, 9:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 2017, 4:29 PM EDT (20:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 26, 2017, 9:00 PM EDT
Expired
Jul 26, 2017, 11:08 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA

County Worcester County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 33 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2017-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 29 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2017-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 4:29 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementAKQDorchester, Somerset, Wicomico18 hr

Nearby

Coastal 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.