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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Sep 15, 2025, 2:36 AM EDT for 9 counties in Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Sep 15, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2025, 2:36 AM EDT (06:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 15, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2025, 8:59 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Northampton County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 Sep 15, 2:07 AM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 2:07 AM EDT, 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2:17 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | AKQ | James City, Surry, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Virginia Beach and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 15, 2:17 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William and 15 more | 44 hr |
| Sep 15, 2:17 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 51 hr |
| Sep 15, 9:21 AM EDT | Gale Watch | AKQ | 5 hr | |
| Sep 15, 1:37 PM EDT | Flood Watch | AKQ | Accomack, Brunswick, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Gloucester, Greensville and 21 more | 35 hr |
| Sep 15, 2:19 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster and 15 more | 34 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.