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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2020, 2:55 PM EDT for Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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 7, 2020, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2020, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
County Currituck County, NC
The radar
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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 7, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 7, 9:41 AM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 6, 9:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince George and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince George | 40 min |
| Aug 6, 10:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | James City, Surry, City of Williamsburg | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 10:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | James City, Surry, City of Williamsburg | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 11:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, City of Williamsburg | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 2:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | AKQ | Accomack, Amelia, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 32 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 67 min | |
| Aug 7, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 48 min | |
| Aug 7, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 5:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 9:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.