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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Wakefield, VA
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.
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 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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 5:00 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 6 days | |
| Aug 20, 5:00 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 42 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:54 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen and 17 more | 4 days |
| Aug 20, 2:54 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen and 16 more | 45 hr |
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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.