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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 23, 2019Dorchester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at May 23, 2019, 4:21 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Maryland. 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: May 23, 2019, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Dorchester County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 3:59 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		21 hr
May 23, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Spotsylvania	49 min
May 23, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Westmoreland	42 min
May 23, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	42 min
May 23, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	44 min
May 23, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		79 min
May 23, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	44 min
May 23, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		89 min
May 23, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	56 min
May 23, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester	41 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2019 Every special weather statement in 2019

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.