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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 28, 2021Prince Edward County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2021, 2:23 AM EDT for Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was in force for 37 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 28, 2021, 2:23 AM EDT (06:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2021, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

County Prince Edward County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 372 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 28, 1:25 AM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 1:25 AM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 9:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 2:23 AM 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 28, 12:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		49 min
Jul 28, 12:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	York	47 min
Jul 28, 12:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	50 min
Jul 28, 12:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		66 min
Jul 28, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth	65 min
Jul 28, 1:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News	119 min
Jul 28, 1:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Newport News	40 min
Jul 28, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		67 min
Jul 28, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	50 min
Jul 28, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	36 min
Jul 28, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		42 min
Jul 28, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	58 min
Jul 28, 1:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News	114 min
Jul 28, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight	48 min
Jul 28, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		33 min
Jul 28, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	48 min
Jul 28, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		22 min
Jul 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Jul 28, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	52 min
Jul 28, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	34 min
Jul 28, 3:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton	3 hr
Jul 28, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northumberland	32 min
Jul 28, 2:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank	59 min
Jul 28, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans	40 min
Jul 28, 3:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans	114 min
Jul 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	18 min
Jul 28, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	29 min
Jul 28, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie	44 min
Jul 28, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie	43 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.