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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 2, 2019Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2019, 4:05 PM EDT for Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 2, 2019, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2019, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Currituck County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 338 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: 457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -36 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
Aug 1, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Powhatan	28 min
Aug 1, 8:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	35 min
Aug 1, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	30 min
Aug 1, 9:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Louisa	43 min
Aug 1, 10:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	26 min
Aug 1, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	34 min
Aug 2, 12:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	26 min
Aug 2, 3:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	59 min
Aug 2, 4:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Richmond, Westmoreland	43 min
Aug 2, 4:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	43 min
Aug 2, 6:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland and 2 more	54 min
Aug 2, 7:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	35 min
Aug 2, 8:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	116 min
Aug 2, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		33 min
Aug 2, 12:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	36 min
Aug 2, 12:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck	44 min
Aug 2, 12:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	48 min
Aug 2, 1:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Pasquotank, Perquimans	2 hr
Aug 2, 8:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	64 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 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.