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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

March 26, 2023Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Mar 26, 2023, 4:21 AM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 26, 2023, 4:21 AM EDT (08:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2023, 4:45 AM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 30

County Bertie County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:23 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 260 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: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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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 25, 11:06 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		8 hr
Mar 26, 4:27 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		31 min
Mar 26, 3:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hertford	38 min
Mar 26, 3:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank	48 min
Mar 26, 4:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	20 min
Mar 26, 11:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Pasquotank	43 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2023 Every special weather statement in 2023

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.