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Beach Hazards Statement 6, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 1, 2025Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 1, 2025, 7:57 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Aug 2, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 2025, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 2, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 4, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
60 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 23:56 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, 12.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2025-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 655 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2025-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
655 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ76 min
Jul 31, 8:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQGloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Surry, York, City of Newport News and 1 more5 hr
Jul 31, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCity of Newport News39 min
Jul 31, 8:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ49 min
Jul 31, 8:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ62 min
Jul 31, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight39 min
Jul 31, 8:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQIsle of Wight31 min
Jul 31, 8:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQYork, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson28 min
Jul 31, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAccomack55 min
Jul 31, 8:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ54 min
Jul 31, 9:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQNorthampton45 min
Jul 31, 9:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQIsle of Wight, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson, City of Suffolk4 hr
Jul 31, 9:15 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ60 min
Jul 31, 9:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQIsle of Wight, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth46 min
Jul 31, 9:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ58 min
Jul 31, 9:35 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ55 min
Jul 31, 9:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQIsle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach5 hr
Jul 31, 9:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQAccomack47 min
Jul 31, 10:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ75 min
Jul 31, 10:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCharles City, Surry45 min
Jul 31, 10:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ79 min
Jul 31, 11:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQSouthampton, Surry, Sussex114 min
Jul 31, 11:14 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningAKQ61 min
Aug 1, 12:53 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach3 hr
Aug 1, 12:57 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQMecklenburg2 hr
Jul 31, 8:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQDorchester, Somerset, Wicomico114 min
Jul 31, 9:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQWorcester40 min

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.