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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Wakefield, VA

January 19, 201911 counties in Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Jan 19, 2019, 3:27 PM EST for 11 counties in Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Jan 20, 2019, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 2019, 3:27 PM EST (20:27 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2019, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 21, 2019, 1:00 AM EST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 301 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2019-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2019-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 366 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
428 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 3:22 AM ESTGale WarningAKQ63 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Virginia, 2019Wind Advisories in Maryland, 2019Wind Advisories in North Carolina, 2019Every wind advisory 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.