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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2021, 5:50 AM EDT for Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 1, 2021, 5:50 AM EDT (09:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2021, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
County Dinwiddie County, VA
The radar
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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 31, 7:47 PM EDT, 10 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 7:47 PM EDT, 10 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 1, 4:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 4:56 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, City of Colonial Heights | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 5:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince George, City of Petersburg | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 6:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Surry, Sussex | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 6:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 46 min |
| Aug 1, 7:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 53 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 46 min |
| Aug 1, 8:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg | 43 min |
| Aug 1, 8:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 67 min |
| Aug 1, 8:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 9:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, City of Emporia | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 9:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 46 min |
| Aug 1, 10:01 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 119 min |
| Aug 1, 10:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Southampton, City of Franklin | 50 min |
| Aug 1, 11:05 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 85 min | |
| Aug 1, 12:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 112 min |
| Aug 1, 12:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 2 hr | |
| Aug 1, 10:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Gates | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 10:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 10:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Pasquotank | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 10:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 10:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 11:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 35 min |
| Aug 1, 11:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford | 43 min |
| Aug 1, 11:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Hertford | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 11:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 11:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Perquimans | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 12:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 23 min |
| Aug 1, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chowan | 22 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.