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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 6, 2017Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Sep 6, 2017, 3:08 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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: Sep 6, 2017, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2017, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Bertie County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Middlesex	42 min
Sep 5, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, Middlesex, City of Williamsburg	50 min
Sep 5, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, James City, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland and 1 more	46 min
Sep 5, 11:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent	44 min
Sep 6, 8:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, New Kent	44 min
Sep 6, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	58 min
Sep 6, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	38 min
Sep 6, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		60 min
Sep 6, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	50 min
Sep 6, 3:56 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		6 hr
Sep 6, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson and 2 more	49 min
Sep 6, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton	48 min
Sep 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		59 min
Sep 6, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	38 min
Sep 6, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	49 min
Sep 6, 4:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Isle of Wight, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Sep 6, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		62 min
Sep 6, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	42 min
Sep 6, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	41 min
Sep 6, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		64 min
Sep 6, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	26 min
Sep 6, 5:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton	2 hr
Sep 6, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		61 min
Sep 6, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		56 min
Sep 6, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		75 min
Sep 6, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		91 min
Sep 6, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan	40 min
Sep 6, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Perquimans	26 min
Sep 6, 3:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans	119 min
Sep 6, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	41 min
Sep 6, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden	39 min
Sep 6, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	38 min
Sep 6, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck	29 min
Sep 6, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	47 min
Sep 5, 10:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Somerset, Wicomico	46 min
Sep 5, 11:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	49 min
Sep 6, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	45 min
Sep 6, 5:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester	3 hr
Sep 6, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	25 min
Sep 6, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	42 min

Nearby

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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.