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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 6, 2018Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2018, 2:01 PM EDT for Worcester County, Maryland. It was in force for 44 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 6, 2018, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2018, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Worcester County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 1988 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 6, 10:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 10:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 2:59 AM EDT, 11 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:15 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:22 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:27 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:53 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:56 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:01 PM EDT, 0 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
Aug 5, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	41 min
Aug 6, 8:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	42 min
Aug 6, 8:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	52 min
Aug 6, 8:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	46 min
Aug 6, 9:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	30 min
Aug 6, 12:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	52 min
Aug 6, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Richmond	44 min
Aug 6, 1:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	41 min
Aug 6, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City	38 min
Aug 6, 1:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, New Kent	117 min
Aug 6, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	37 min
Aug 6, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	52 min
Aug 6, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	48 min
Aug 6, 2:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	118 min
Aug 6, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	38 min
Aug 6, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Richmond	41 min
Aug 6, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover	51 min
Aug 6, 3:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth	113 min
Aug 6, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Richmond	51 min
Aug 6, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George	28 min
Aug 6, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Middlesex	31 min
Aug 6, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights	29 min
Aug 6, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex	25 min
Aug 6, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		38 min
Aug 6, 4:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Prince George, Surry, Sussex, City of Petersburg	66 min
Aug 6, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George	40 min
Aug 6, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	38 min
Aug 6, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lancaster	36 min
Aug 6, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	43 min
Aug 6, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City	35 min
Aug 6, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	30 min
Aug 6, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	47 min
Aug 6, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	48 min
Aug 6, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	45 min
Aug 6, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	49 min
Aug 6, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden	42 min
Aug 6, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan	24 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2018 Every 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.