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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this wind advisory at Sep 22, 2026, 3:01 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina; Worcester County, Maryland. It took effect at Sep 23, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2026, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 23, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Worcester County, MD, Currituck County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Northampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 1471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 1:58 AM EDT | Gale Warning | AKQ | 5 days | |
| Sep 22, 2:10 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen and 20 more | 38 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:10 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 5 days |
| Sep 22, 10:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Gloucester, Lancaster, Middlesex | 37 min |
| Sep 22, 10:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 12:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 11 min |
| Sep 22, 12:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 12:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, York | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 1:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | York, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:57 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City and 24 more | 5 days |
| Sep 22, 5:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Perquimans | 2 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.