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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

January 30, 202627 counties in Virginia; 9 counties in North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this winter storm warning at Jan 30, 2026, 1:42 AM EST for 27 counties in Virginia; 9 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 30, 2026, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 35 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: Jan 30, 2026, 1:42 AM EST (06:42 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 30, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 1, 2026, 5:46 AM EST
In force: 35 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA

All 36 counties

Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Gates County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Charles City County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Greensville County, VA, James City County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:45 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 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 2340 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 30, 1:01 AM EST, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 1:01 AM EST, 41 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
Jan 30, 1:54 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		44 hr
Jan 30, 1:54 AM EST	Storm Warning	AKQ		59 hr
Jan 30, 1:54 AM EST	Heavy Freezing Spray Watch	AKQ		12 hr
Jan 30, 2:07 AM EST	Coastal Flood Watch	AKQ	Northampton, City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	23 hr
Jan 30, 2:16 AM EST	Cold Weather Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 43 more	47 hr
Jan 30, 2:01 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 29 more	35 hr
Jan 30, 2:02 PM EST	Gale Warning	AKQ		53 hr
Jan 30, 2:02 PM EST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	AKQ		47 hr
Jan 30, 2:17 PM EST	High Wind Warning	AKQ	Accomack, Mathews, Northampton, City of Hampton, City of Virginia Beach	44 hr
Jan 30, 2:17 PM EST	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 6 more	47 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Virginia, 2026 Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2026 Every winter storm warning in 2026

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.