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Wind Advisory 9, NWS Wakefield, VA

November 20, 2024Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Nov 20, 2024, 2:58 PM EST for Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Nov 20, 2024, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 20, 2024, 2:58 PM EST (19:58 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 20, 2024, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Nov 21, 2024, 3:01 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Accomack County, VA, Northampton County, VA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-11-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-11-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.