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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 10, 2021Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2021, 1:21 PM EDT for Worcester County, Maryland. 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: Jun 10, 2021, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Worcester County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

075 
WWUS81 KAKQ 101721
SPSAKQ

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
121 PM EDT Thu Jun 10 2021

MDZ024-025-101800-
Maryland Beaches-Inland Worcester-
121 PM EDT Thu Jun 10 2021

...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT CENTRAL 
WORCESTER COUNTY...

At 120 PM EDT, thunderstorms were clustered near Newark, or 14 miles 
southwest of Ocean City. These storms are nearly stationary.

Rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Newark, Ironshire, Mount Wesley, Whiton, Cedartown and Public
Landing.

Motorists should use extra caution in the vicinity of this storm. Be
prepared for rapid changes in weather and road conditions. Heavy rain
could cause ponding of water on roads, and possible minor flooding of
ditches and poor drainage areas.

LAT...LON 3810 7514 3806 7532 3829 7541 3829 7537
      3832 7536 3833 7533 3831 7521 3813 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 1720Z 350DEG 3KT 3824 7530 

$$

Butner

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 10:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince Edward	10 hr
Jun 10, 2:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 41 more	33 hr
Jun 10, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	43 min
Jun 10, 3:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Cumberland, Prince Edward	113 min
Jun 10, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	27 min
Jun 10, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	36 min
Jun 10, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	51 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	30 min
Jun 10, 4:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Jun 10, 5:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	54 min
Jun 10, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	28 min
Jun 10, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	43 min
Jun 10, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City	51 min
Jun 10, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Surry	57 min
Jun 10, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	45 min
Jun 10, 6:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Surry	118 min
Jun 10, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		55 min
Jun 10, 6:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Surry	113 min
Jun 10, 6:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	109 min
Jun 10, 7:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	King William	113 min
Jun 10, 7:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	3 hr
Jun 10, 7:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Prince George, Surry, Sussex	3 hr
Jun 9, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan	40 min
Jun 10, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie	36 min
Jun 10, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck	46 min
Jun 10, 5:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Currituck	2 hr
Jun 10, 1:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	45 min
Jun 10, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	46 min
Jun 10, 2:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	23 min
Jun 10, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	29 min
Jun 10, 3:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Wicomico	112 min
Jun 10, 3:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Wicomico	81 min

Nearby

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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.