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Coastal Flood Statement 13, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 13, 2022Accomack County, Virginia; Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 13, 2022, 6:51 AM EDT for Accomack County, Virginia; Somerset County, Wicomico County, Maryland. It took effect at Sep 13, 2022, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 13, 2022, 6:51 AM EDT (10:51 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 13, 2022, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 13, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Accomack County, VA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 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: 1453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at Sep 13, 2:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 2:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 1:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 13, 1:14 AM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 1:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 3:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 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
Sep 12, 9:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		61 min
Sep 12, 11:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	65 min
Sep 13, 12:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Louisa	54 min
Sep 13, 1:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, Louisa	42 min
Sep 13, 10:28 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		20 hr
Sep 12, 8:08 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	AKQ	Currituck	24 hr
Sep 12, 8:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	48 min
Sep 12, 8:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Somerset	52 min
Sep 12, 8:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	46 min
Sep 12, 9:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Somerset, Worcester	118 min
Sep 12, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Worcester	41 min
Sep 12, 10:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Worcester	32 min
Sep 13, 3:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	42 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.