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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2018, 5:21 PM EDT for Charles City County, Prince George County, Virginia. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 2, 2018, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Aug 1, 7:58 PM EDT, 21 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 7:58 PM EDT, 21 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 1, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince Edward | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince Edward | 25 min |
| Aug 1, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Cumberland, Prince Edward | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 9:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Goochland, Louisa | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 11:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Cumberland, Fluvanna, Louisa | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 11:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 12:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg, Prince Edward | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 12:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Goochland, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Powhatan | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 12:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 12:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Goochland, Nottoway, Powhatan | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 1:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 44 min | |
| Aug 2, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Powhatan | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mathews, Northampton | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 26 min | |
| Aug 2, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, King William, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 2:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Essex, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent and 2 more | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 4:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, Prince George and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Brunswick | 9 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | King and Queen, New Kent | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Nottoway | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway and 3 more | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Prince George, Surry, Sussex, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, New Kent, Prince George | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lancaster, Middlesex | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Suffolk | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gloucester, Middlesex | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 min | |
| Aug 2, 11:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Worcester | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.