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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 9, 20184 counties in Virginia; Camden County, Currituck County, Pasquotank County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high wind watch at Oct 9, 2018, 8:58 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia; Camden County, Currituck County, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 11, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 9, 2018, 8:58 PM EDT (00:58 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 11, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 10, 2018, 3:26 PM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 high wind watch 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 wind watch went out at Oct 9, 8:28 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 8:28 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 9, 3:22 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 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
Oct 10, 4:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	AKQ	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 43 more	47 hr
Oct 10, 5:45 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland, Westmoreland	24 hr
Oct 10, 3:26 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	AKQ	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 36 more	39 hr
Oct 10, 3:26 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie and 33 more	34 hr
Oct 10, 3:32 PM EDT	Gale Warning	AKQ		28 hr
Oct 10, 3:32 PM EDT	Storm Warning	AKQ		39 hr
Oct 10, 4:32 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	13 hr
Oct 10, 4:32 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 2 more	36 hr
Oct 9, 10:30 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	7 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Virginia, 2018 High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2018 Every high wind watch 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.