{"url_path":"/weather/alerts/2.49.0.1.840.0.ac254966c10fafd89373dacb74aff867238976b8.003.1","section_key":"alert","section_title":"Air Quality Alert issued July 16 at 5:51PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA","topic":"weather","document":{"doc_type":"alert","doc_date":"2026-07-16","source_url":"https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn%3Aoid%3A2.49.0.1.840.0.ac254966c10fafd89373dacb74aff867238976b8.003.1","accession_number":null,"cik":null,"ticker":null,"issuer_name":null,"edgar_url":null,"primary_entity_key":null,"primary_entity_name":"NWS Wakefield VA"},"word_count":159,"has_tables":false,"body_markdown":"# Air Quality Alert: Air Quality Alert issued July 16 at 5:51PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA\n\n**Severity:** Unknown\n**Certainty:** Unknown\n**Urgency:** Unknown\n**Areas:** Prince Edward; Cumberland; Mecklenburg; Lunenburg; Nottoway; Amelia; Brunswick; Gloucester; Greensville; Sussex; Surry; James City; Southampton; Chesapeake; Virginia Beach; York; Newport News; Hampton/Poquoson; Isle of Wight; Suffolk; Norfolk; Portsmouth\n**Issued by:** NWS Wakefield VA\n**Sent:** 2026-07-16T17:51:00-04:00\n**Effective:** 2026-07-16T17:51:00-04:00\n**Expires:** 2026-07-17T06:00:00-04:00\n\n## Description\nThe Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Code\nORANGE Air Quality Alert across The Hampton Roads Area, for Fine\nParticulates, until midnight EDT Friday night. This also includes\nsouth central Virginia and the Eastern Virginia Piedmont.\n\nAir quality is expected to reach code ORANGE...which is unhealthy\nfor sensitive groups...and means individuals with respiratory\nand/or heart ailments, older adults, and children should reduce\nprolonged or heavy outdoor exertion.\n\nAn Air Quality Alert means that Fine Particulates concentrations\nwithin the region may approach or exceed unhealthy standards. For\nadditional information, please visit the Virginia D E Q Air Quality\nWeb Site at http://www.deq.virginia.gov/AQforecast"}