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Beach Hazards Statement 12, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 18, 2021, 7:22 PM EDT for Currituck County, North Carolina; City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It took effect at Sep 19, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 2021, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 19, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2021, 7:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
192 WHUS41 KAKQ 182322 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 722 PM EDT Sat Sep 18 2021 NCZ102-VAZ098-190730- /O.CAN.KAKQ.BH.S.0011.000000T0000Z-210919T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KAKQ.BH.S.0012.210919T1200Z-210920T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck-Virginia Beach- 722 PM EDT Sat Sep 18 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Virginia, the Atlantic Beaches of Virginia Beach. In North Carolina, the Atlantic Beaches of Eastern Currituck County. * WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$ MDZ025-VAZ099-100-190030- /O.CAN.KAKQ.BH.S.0011.000000T0000Z-210919T0000Z/ Maryland Beaches-Accomack-Northampton- 722 PM EDT Sat Sep 18 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... $$
3 follow-up statements
063 WHUS41 KAKQ 190737 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 337 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 NCZ102-VAZ098-191545- /O.CON.KAKQ.BH.S.0012.210919T1200Z-210920T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck-Virginia Beach- 337 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Virginia, the Atlantic Beaches of Virginia Beach. In North Carolina, the Atlantic Beaches of Eastern Currituck County. * WHEN...From Sunday morning through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
569 WHUS41 KAKQ 191356 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 956 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 NCZ102-VAZ098-200000- /O.CON.KAKQ.BH.S.0012.000000T0000Z-210920T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck-Virginia Beach- 956 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Virginia, the Atlantic Beaches of Virginia Beach. In North Carolina, the Atlantic Beaches of Eastern Currituck County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
105 WHUS41 KAKQ 192331 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 731 PM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 NCZ102-VAZ098-200045- /O.CAN.KAKQ.BH.S.0012.000000T0000Z-210920T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck-Virginia Beach- 731 PM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... $$
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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.