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High Surf Advisory 5, NWS Wakefield, VA

March 18, 2017City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high surf advisory at Mar 18, 2017, 6:38 AM EDT for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 19, 2017, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 18, 2017, 6:38 AM EDT (10:38 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 19, 2017, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 20, 2017, 1:54 AM EDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Currituck County, NC, City of Virginia Beach, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 surf advisory went out at Mar 18, 4:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 4:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 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
Mar 18, 4:01 AM EDT	Gale Warning	AKQ		39 hr
Mar 18, 4:01 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		3 days
Mar 18, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna, Goochland	41 min
Mar 18, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan, Prince Edward	44 min
Mar 18, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway	47 min
Mar 18, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, City of Colonial Heights	40 min
Mar 18, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	41 min
Mar 18, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	45 min

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Virginia, 2017 High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2017 Every high surf advisory 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.