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Beach Hazards Statement 25, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 8, 2025, 7:23 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Oct 9, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2025, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 9, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2025, 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 23:26 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, 11.4 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 8:35 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 4 days | |
| Oct 8, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 64 min | |
| Oct 8, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 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.