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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 20, 2025City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, Virginia; Camden County, Pasquotank County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Aug 20, 2025, 4:47 AM EDT for City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, Virginia; Camden County, Pasquotank County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Aug 21, 2025, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 2025, 4:47 AM EDT (08:47 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 21, 2025, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 21, 2025, 7:13 PM EDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Worcester County, MD, Camden County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Hampton, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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 00:00Z on 2025-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 443 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 00:00Z on 2025-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
443 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Aug 20, 4:47 AM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 4:47 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 5:00 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAKQ6 days
Aug 20, 5:00 AM EDTTropical Storm WarningAKQAccomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach42 hr
Aug 20, 2:54 PM EDTCoastal Flood WarningAKQAccomack, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen and 17 more4 days
Aug 20, 2:54 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryAKQAccomack, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen and 16 more45 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.