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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 11, 1995Prince Edward County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1995, 10:01 PM EDT for Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1995, 10:01 PM EDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Prince Edward County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 2368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 11, 1:21 PM EDT, 8 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:21 PM EDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:48 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 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
Jun 11, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Sussex	48 min
Jun 11, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Powhatan	49 min
Jun 11, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland	46 min
Jun 11, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico	41 min
Jun 11, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Surry	40 min
Jun 11, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Southampton, Sussex	45 min
Jun 11, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hanover	45 min
Jun 11, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Powhatan	61 min
Jun 11, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia	61 min
Jun 11, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hanover, Louisa	60 min
Jun 11, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince Edward	29 min
Jun 11, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline	46 min
Jun 12, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Sussex	43 min
Jun 12, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	40 min
Jun 12, 1:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	41 min
Jun 12, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Hampton	37 min
Jun 12, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	37 min
Jun 12, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gates	42 min
Jun 12, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	47 min
Jun 12, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	47 min
Jun 12, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	62 min
Jun 12, 7:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Northampton	43 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 1995 Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.