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Beach Hazards Statement 4, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at Jun 23, 2021, 4:13 PM EDT for Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2021, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
County Currituck County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
176 WHUS41 KAKQ 232013 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 413 PM EDT Wed Jun 23 2021 NCZ102-241200- /O.NEW.KAKQ.BH.S.0004.210623T2013Z-210625T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck- 413 PM EDT Wed Jun 23 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Currituck County beaches. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The most likely time for strong rip currents to occur is a couple hours either side of low tide, which will occur around 1:30 Thursday afternoon. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. When out of the current, swim back to shore. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ JM
1 follow-up statement
411 WHUS41 KAKQ 241040 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 640 AM EDT Thu Jun 24 2021 NCZ102-241845- /O.CON.KAKQ.BH.S.0004.000000T0000Z-210625T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck- 640 AM EDT Thu Jun 24 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Eastern Currituck County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The most likely time for strong rip currents to occur is a couple hours either side of low tide, which will occur around 1:30 Thursday afternoon. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
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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.