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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2020, 4:21 PM EDT for City of Franklin, City of Suffolk, 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
- Aug 8, 2020, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2020, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties City of Franklin, VA, City of Suffolk, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 8, 3:51 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:51 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 8, 1:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 72 min | |
| Aug 8, 1:44 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 46 min | |
| Aug 8, 2:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 2:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 2:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:01 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 47 min | |
| Aug 8, 3:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Accomack | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 3:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 52 min | |
| Aug 8, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 4:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Franklin | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince George | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, City of Petersburg | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Petersburg | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince George | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 6:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Petersburg | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 6:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Prince George, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 7:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 4:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Chowan, Perquimans | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hertford | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hertford | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 10:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dorchester | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 11:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Wicomico | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 11:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dorchester, Wicomico | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 12:07 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Wicomico | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Worcester | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 12:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Somerset | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 2:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Somerset | 3 hr |
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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.