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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this freeze watch at Nov 15, 2021, 3:16 AM EST for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; 5 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2021, 3:16 AM EST (08:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2021, 2:25 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, City of Virginia Beach, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Nov 15, 12:47 AM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 12:47 AM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2:25 PM EST | Frost Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Hampton, City of Virginia Beach | 16 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:25 PM EST | Freeze Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 16 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in North Carolina, 2021Freeze Watches in Virginia, 2021Every freeze watch in 2021
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.