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Beach Hazards Statement 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at May 18, 2024, 3:42 PM EDT for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It took effect at May 19, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2024, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 19, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 20, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 4:00 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 48 hr |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in Virginia, 2024Beach Hazards Statements in North Carolina, 2024Every beach hazards statement in 2024
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.