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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 29, 2018Hertford County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2018, 4:13 PM EDT for Hertford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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: Jul 29, 2018, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2018, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Hertford County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1563 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Jul 28, 7:46 PM EDT, 20 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 7:46 PM EDT, 20 hours 27 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
Jul 28, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	39 min
Jul 28, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	40 min
Jul 28, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville	46 min
Jul 28, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Prince George, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	42 min
Jul 28, 10:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, James City, City of Williamsburg	51 min
Jul 29, 12:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, York, City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg	40 min
Jul 29, 4:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		62 min
Jul 29, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	47 min
Jul 28, 10:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	40 min
Jul 29, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	47 min
Jul 29, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	46 min
Jul 29, 2:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	3 hr
Jul 29, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates	45 min
Jul 29, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	46 min
Jul 29, 7:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hertford, Northampton	51 min

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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.