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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 10, 2019Essex County, Westmoreland County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2019, 2:21 PM EDT for Essex County, Westmoreland 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: Jun 10, 2019, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2019, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Essex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 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 Jun 10, 9:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 9:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 4:12 AM EDT, 10 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:31 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:07 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:11 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:21 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
Jun 9, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	58 min
Jun 9, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	52 min
Jun 9, 9:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 9, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	34 min
Jun 10, 3:19 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		46 hr
Jun 10, 3:54 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Northumberland, Westmoreland	6 hr
Jun 10, 5:07 AM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ		8 hr
Jun 10, 12:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	47 min
Jun 10, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry	45 min
Jun 10, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, City of Richmond	44 min
Jun 10, 1:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond	118 min
Jun 10, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City	38 min
Jun 10, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	49 min
Jun 10, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	45 min
Jun 10, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lancaster, Middlesex	50 min
Jun 10, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Franklin, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk and 3 more	40 min
Jun 10, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews, City of Williamsburg	51 min
Jun 10, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		68 min
Jun 10, 3:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	King and Queen, King William	3 hr
Jun 10, 3:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie	3 hr
Jun 10, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	47 min
Jun 10, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	36 min
Jun 10, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	46 min
Jun 10, 4:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News	2 hr
Jun 10, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	49 min
Jun 10, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	62 min
Jun 10, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		57 min
Jun 10, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	33 min
Jun 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Prince George	43 min
Jun 10, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	47 min
Jun 10, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	49 min
Jun 10, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	39 min
Jun 10, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	39 min
Jun 10, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover	34 min
Jun 10, 6:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Henrico, City of Richmond	2 hr
Jun 10, 6:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick	118 min
Jun 10, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	33 min
Jun 10, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	119 min
Jun 10, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	45 min
Jun 10, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	32 min
Jun 10, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Westmoreland	33 min
Jun 10, 7:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick	2 hr
Jun 10, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	45 min
Jun 10, 7:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Mecklenburg	2 hr
Jun 10, 3:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Northampton	3 hr
Jun 10, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	43 min
Jun 10, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Perquimans	29 min
Jun 10, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.