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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this blizzard warning at Feb 21, 2026, 2:42 PM EST for Accomack County, Northampton County, Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Feb 22, 2026, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 20 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2026, 2:42 PM EST (19:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2026, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2026, 8:44 AM EST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Accomack County, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard warning 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 blizzard warning went out at Feb 21, 1:28 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 1:28 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 2:13 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | AKQ | Accomack, Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, James City and 15 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:16 AM EST | Storm Watch | AKQ | 11 hr | |
| Feb 21, 1:05 PM EST | Gale Warning | AKQ | 53 hr | |
| Feb 21, 1:05 PM EST | Storm Warning | AKQ | 41 hr | |
| Feb 21, 2:42 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William and 10 more | 37 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.