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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Wakefield, VA

February 22, 2026City of Hampton, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Feb 22, 2026, 12:59 AM EST for City of Hampton, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 22, 2026, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2026, 12:59 AM EST (05:59 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 22, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 23, 2026, 3:31 AM EST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

Counties Currituck County, NC, City of Hampton, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 386 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 22, 12:03 AM EST, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 12:03 AM EST, 56 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 12:36 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	AKQ	Amelia, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Goochland and 20 more	27 hr
Feb 22, 12:56 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		15 hr
Feb 22, 2:03 AM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	35 hr
Feb 22, 2:03 AM EST	High Surf Advisory	AKQ	Accomack	35 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.