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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Dec 16, 2023, 3:10 AM EST for 13 counties in Virginia; Camden County, Currituck County, Pasquotank County, North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Dec 17, 2023, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2023, 3:10 AM EST (08:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 17, 2023, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2023, 3:02 PM EST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank 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, Gloucester County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:10 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 2497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 3:03 AM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 60 hr | |
| Dec 16, 3:08 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 67 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:01 PM EST | Flood Watch | AKQ | Accomack, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 33 more | 40 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:52 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Gloucester, James City, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex and 10 more | 54 hr |
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.