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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Oct 27, 2025, 3:23 AM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 27, 2025, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 2025, 3:23 AM EDT (07:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 27, 2025, 10:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2025, 6:26 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 27, 3:30 AM EDT | Gale Warning | AKQ | 46 hr | |
| Oct 27, 5:01 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 3 days |
| Oct 27, 3:19 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Charles City, Essex, James City, Lancaster, Mathews and 11 more | 4 days |
| Oct 27, 3:19 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William and 16 more | 3 days |
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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.