Alert archive / Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2018
Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2018, 6:55 AM EDT for Southampton County, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk, Virginia; Gates County, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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 3, 2018, 6:55 AM EDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2018, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Gates County, NC, Hertford County, NC, City of Franklin, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Southampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 253 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Lunenburg and 4 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 7:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, City of Franklin, City of Newport News and 1 more | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 8:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, York, City of Williamsburg | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 9:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 10:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Somerset | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 10:32 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 111 min |
| Aug 3, 11:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Worcester | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 5:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 6:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 40 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2018Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2018Every special weather 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.