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Beach Hazards Statement 5, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 7, 2024, 3:14 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Aug 8, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2024, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 8, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 1310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this beach hazards statement 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 beach hazards statement went out at Aug 7, 2:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:59 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 3 days | |
| Aug 7, 8:59 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | AKQ | 7 hr | |
| Aug 7, 1:21 PM EDT | Gale Watch | AKQ | 15 hr | |
| Aug 7, 2:18 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Essex, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland and 1 more | 67 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Chesterfield, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Caroline | 2 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.