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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2026, 1:41 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Mar 16, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2026, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2026, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 15, 7:15 AM EDT, 6 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 7:15 AM EDT, 6 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:22 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 3 days | |
| Mar 15, 1:21 PM EDT | Gale Warning | AKQ | 36 hr |
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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.