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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 20, 2026Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 20, 2026, 2:48 PM EDT for Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 20, 2026, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Currituck County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 312 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1192 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 20, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry	42 min
Aug 20, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight	49 min
Aug 20, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	47 min
Aug 20, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		58 min
Aug 20, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Suffolk	39 min
Aug 20, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	49 min
Aug 20, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		56 min
Aug 20, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach	49 min
Aug 20, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		93 min
Aug 20, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk	46 min
Aug 20, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		30 min
Aug 20, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	43 min
Aug 20, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		95 min
Aug 20, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	18 min
Aug 20, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	45 min
Aug 20, 4:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	110 min
Aug 20, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		53 min
Aug 20, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		47 min
Aug 20, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Powhatan, City of Richmond	43 min
Aug 20, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Powhatan and 1 more	51 min
Aug 20, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	41 min
Aug 20, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	46 min
Aug 20, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent and 1 more	46 min
Aug 20, 7:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico	3 hr
Aug 20, 7:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	13 min
Aug 20, 7:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	3 hr
Aug 20, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	47 min
Aug 20, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan	38 min
Aug 20, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	50 min
Aug 20, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan	46 min
Aug 20, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan	47 min
Aug 20, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	55 min
Aug 20, 6:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	34 min
Aug 20, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester, Wicomico	43 min
Aug 20, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	39 min
Aug 20, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	44 min

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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.