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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this high wind warning at Jan 8, 2024, 3:10 PM EST for 9 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Jan 9, 2024, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2024, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2024, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2024, 12:01 AM EST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind warning 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 high wind warning went out at Jan 8, 12:45 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 12:45 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 1:53 PM EST | Flood Watch | AKQ | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 43 more | 35 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:10 PM EST | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 30 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:22 PM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 33 hr | |
| Jan 8, 3:22 PM EST | Storm Warning | AKQ | 36 hr | |
| Jan 8, 3:39 PM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northumberland, Westmoreland, City of Virginia Beach | 48 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:39 PM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 51 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Virginia, 2024High Wind Warnings in North Carolina, 2024High Wind Warnings in Maryland, 2024Every high wind warning 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.