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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Wakefield, VA

March 11, 202219 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Mar 11, 2022, 3:06 PM EST for 19 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Mar 12, 2022, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2022, 3:06 PM EST (20:06 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 12, 2022, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Mar 13, 2022, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

All 28 counties

Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Essex County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 11, 12:48 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 12:48 PM EST, 2 hours 18 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
Mar 11, 3:57 AM EST	Gale Warning	AKQ		50 hr
Mar 11, 3:54 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	AKQ	Fluvanna, Louisa	23 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Virginia, 2022 Wind Advisories in North Carolina, 2022 Wind Advisories in Maryland, 2022 Every wind advisory in 2022

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.