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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at May 7, 2022, 10:14 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Worcester County, Maryland. It was in force for 69 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2022, 10:14 PM EDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Accomack County, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 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 May 7, 8:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 8:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:56 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Currituck | 4 days |
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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.