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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 8, 2021Wicomico County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2021, 9:32 PM EDT for Wicomico County, Maryland. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 8, 2021, 9:32 PM EDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2021, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Wicomico County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 8, 4:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 4:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 5:42 AM EDT, 15 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:45 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 9:32 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry	29 min
Jun 9, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	41 min
Jun 9, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry	45 min
Jun 9, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Newport News	28 min
Jun 9, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry	27 min
Jun 9, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, City of Petersburg	34 min
Jun 9, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		61 min
Jun 9, 3:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Prince Edward	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights	52 min
Jun 9, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield	35 min
Jun 9, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna, Goochland	50 min
Jun 9, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Newport News	30 min
Jun 9, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	36 min
Jun 9, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Surry, Sussex	51 min
Jun 9, 3:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	42 min
Jun 9, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Petersburg	36 min
Jun 9, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	39 min
Jun 9, 3:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Prince George	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield	48 min
Jun 9, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		62 min
Jun 9, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland	44 min
Jun 9, 4:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie	3 hr
Jun 9, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	50 min
Jun 9, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		40 min
Jun 9, 4:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jun 9, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	40 min
Jun 9, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, City of Emporia, City of Franklin	49 min
Jun 9, 4:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Hanover, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jun 9, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Henrico	3 hr
Jun 9, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen	49 min
Jun 9, 5:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	City of Richmond	3 hr
Jun 9, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		53 min
Jun 9, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	39 min
Jun 9, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		76 min
Jun 9, 6:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Essex, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		60 min
Jun 9, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		58 min
Jun 9, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		56 min
Jun 9, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden	37 min
Jun 9, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	29 min
Jun 9, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	38 min
Jun 8, 8:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	45 min
Jun 9, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	41 min
Jun 9, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	51 min
Jun 9, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	53 min
Jun 9, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.