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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 16, 2017City of Franklin, Virginia; Northampton County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2017, 4:00 PM EDT for City of Franklin, Virginia; Northampton County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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: Jun 16, 2017, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2017, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Northampton County, NC, City of Franklin, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 16, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 6:38 AM EDT, 9 hours 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:09 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:27 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:38 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:43 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:56 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:00 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
Jun 15, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	43 min
Jun 15, 9:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland	47 min
Jun 15, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	20 min
Jun 15, 10:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland	40 min
Jun 15, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Powhatan, Prince Edward	23 min
Jun 15, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Prince Edward	45 min
Jun 16, 12:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	57 min
Jun 16, 1:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	61 min
Jun 16, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	32 min
Jun 16, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	32 min
Jun 16, 4:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Jun 16, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	29 min
Jun 16, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	30 min
Jun 16, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight	43 min
Jun 16, 5:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	2 hr
Jun 16, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	50 min
Jun 16, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George	24 min
Jun 16, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		52 min
Jun 16, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Surry	32 min
Jun 16, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen	41 min
Jun 16, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex	60 min
Jun 16, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City, City of Williamsburg	35 min
Jun 16, 6:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Essex, Middlesex	2 hr
Jun 16, 6:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Essex	2 hr
Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, City of Williamsburg	42 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex	38 min
Jun 16, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield	47 min
Jun 16, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	52 min
Jun 16, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	48 min
Jun 16, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates, Hertford	39 min
Jun 16, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates	53 min
Jun 16, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates	51 min
Jun 16, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	33 min
Jun 16, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hertford	22 min
Jun 16, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	34 min
Jun 16, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Pasquotank, Perquimans	31 min
Jun 16, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan	53 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2017 Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2017 Every special weather 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.