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Coastal Flood Statement 30, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 21, 20185 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 21, 2018, 4:47 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Sep 21, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 21, 2018, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 21, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT
Expired
Sep 22, 2018, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Accomack County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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.

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 Sep 20, 7:35 PM EDT, 21 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 7:35 PM EDT, 21 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 21, 4:14 AM EDTCoastal Flood StatementAKQLancaster, Northumberland, Westmoreland12 hr
Sep 21, 3:59 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAKQ18 hr
Sep 21, 4:47 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryAKQNorthumberland, Westmoreland12 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Virginia, 2018Every coastal flood statement in 2018

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.