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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 9, 2021City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, Virginia; Bertie County, Gates County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2021, 5:29 PM EDT for City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, Virginia; Bertie County, Gates County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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: Jul 9, 2021, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2021, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Bertie County, NC, Gates County, NC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 871 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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 Jul 9, 3:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 3:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:33 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:01 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:29 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
Jul 8, 8:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	23 min
Jul 8, 8:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	35 min
Jul 8, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		33 min
Jul 8, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		83 min
Jul 8, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, James City, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex and 1 more	38 min
Jul 8, 8:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, James City, King William, New Kent, Prince George	5 hr
Jul 8, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		45 min
Jul 8, 9:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex and 3 more	4 hr
Jul 8, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		76 min
Jul 8, 11:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		77 min
Jul 9, 1:14 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick	34 hr
Jul 9, 2:11 AM EDT	Gale Warning	AKQ		5 hr
Jul 9, 4:12 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		11 hr
Jul 9, 1:38 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, New Kent	17 hr
Jul 9, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	40 min
Jul 9, 2:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	44 min
Jul 9, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	44 min
Jul 9, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Sussex	48 min
Jul 9, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, City of Emporia	48 min
Jul 9, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton	42 min
Jul 9, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Newport News	51 min
Jul 9, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		25 min
Jul 9, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Franklin, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	57 min
Jul 9, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	44 min
Jul 9, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		56 min
Jul 9, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	53 min
Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		67 min
Jul 8, 11:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico	3 hr
Jul 8, 11:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Wicomico, Worcester	27 min
Jul 9, 12:02 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester	3 hr
Jul 9, 12:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Worcester	26 min
Jul 9, 12:05 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Wicomico	25 min
Jul 9, 12:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	3 hr
Jul 9, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	50 min
Jul 9, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	38 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2021 Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2021 Every special weather statement 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.