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High Surf Advisory 9, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 7, 2018City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high surf advisory at Jul 7, 2018, 3:12 PM EDT for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2018, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2018, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
34 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 19:10 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 Jul 6, 7:49 PM EDT, 19 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 7:49 PM EDT, 19 hours 23 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 8:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQBrunswick, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward3 hr
Jul 6, 8:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQEssex46 min
Jul 7, 4:40 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCity of Newport News50 min
Jul 7, 4:57 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ2 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Virginia, 2018High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2018Every high surf advisory 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.