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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 16, 1995Prince Edward County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1995, 6:08 PM EDT for Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Prince Edward County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1864 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMecklenburg55 min

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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.