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Beach Hazards Statement 10, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 2, 2026, 8:05 PM EDT for Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Aug 3, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2026, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 3, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Accomack County, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 884 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince Edward | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 5:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Prince Edward | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Goochland, Powhatan | 2 hr |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in Virginia, 2026Beach Hazards Statements in Maryland, 2026Every beach hazards statement in 2026
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.