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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA

March 4, 1993Spotsylvania County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1993, 7:20 AM EST for Spotsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 1993, 7:20 AM EST (12:20 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 1993, 12:15 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Spotsylvania County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1993-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1993-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 654 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
654 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1061 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 5:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningAKQBath3 hr
Mar 4, 6:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningAKQBath95 min
Mar 4, 7:30 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningAKQBuckingham, Nelson105 min
Mar 4, 7:30 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningAKQRockbridge105 min
Mar 4, 9:39 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningAKQAlbemarle, Fluvanna, Louisa4 hr
Mar 4, 10:21 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningAKQNelson, Rockbridge4 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.