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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 12, 2018Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 12, 2018, 3:21 PM EDT for Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina. 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 12, 2018, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2018, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 12, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 3:29 AM EDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 2:43 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 2:51 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 3:17 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 3:21 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 11, 8:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline	3 hr
Aug 11, 8:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico	42 min
Aug 11, 8:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Westmoreland	67 min
Aug 12, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	54 min
Aug 12, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	43 min
Aug 12, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	50 min
Aug 12, 3:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Prince Edward	3 hr
Aug 12, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway	62 min
Aug 12, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	56 min
Aug 12, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Richmond	60 min
Aug 12, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline	38 min
Aug 12, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	46 min
Aug 12, 4:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond	3 hr
Aug 12, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, City of Richmond	63 min
Aug 12, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Powhatan	42 min
Aug 12, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Goochland, Hanover, Henrico	3 hr
Aug 12, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, King William, Richmond, Westmoreland	65 min
Aug 12, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, New Kent, Prince George, Sussex and 4 more	56 min
Aug 12, 5:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	King William, New Kent	3 hr
Aug 12, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, James City, City of Williamsburg	64 min
Aug 12, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, New Kent, Prince George and 3 more	44 min
Aug 12, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		60 min
Aug 12, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry, Sussex	54 min
Aug 12, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, York and 1 more	57 min
Aug 12, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	58 min
Aug 12, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		95 min
Aug 11, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Talbot	55 min
Aug 11, 9:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	57 min
Aug 11, 10:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	41 min
Aug 12, 1:51 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	2 hr
Aug 12, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	61 min
Aug 12, 6:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Somerset, Wicomico	3 hr
Aug 12, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	64 min
Aug 12, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	41 min
Aug 12, 6:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dorchester	3 hr
Aug 12, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	62 min
Aug 12, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	47 min
Aug 12, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	39 min
Aug 12, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	39 min
Aug 12, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates	53 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 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.