Alert archive / Virginia / Wind Advisories in 2025

Wind Advisory 7, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 27, 2025Accomack County, Northampton County, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2025-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2025-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -79 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 3:30 AM EDTGale WarningAKQ46 hr
Oct 27, 5:01 AM EDTHigh Surf AdvisoryAKQAccomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach3 days
Oct 27, 3:19 PM EDTCoastal Flood WarningAKQAccomack, Charles City, Essex, James City, Lancaster, Mathews and 11 more4 days
Oct 27, 3:19 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryAKQAccomack, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William and 16 more3 days

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Virginia, 2025Wind Advisories in North Carolina, 2025Every wind advisory in 2025

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.