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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Feb 18, 2022, 3:01 PM EST for Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Feb 19, 2022, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2022, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2022, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2022, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Accomack County, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 113 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 17, 3:33 PM EST, 23 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 3:33 PM EST, 23 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:27 PM EST | Low Water Advisory | AKQ | 10 hr | |
| Feb 17, 11:46 PM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack | 12 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway | 40 min |
| Feb 18, 10:15 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 17 hr | |
| Feb 18, 2:54 PM EST | Gale Watch | AKQ | 12 hr | |
| Feb 18, 5:22 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank and 1 more | 53 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.