Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 1995, 5:55 PM EDT for Sussex County, Virginia. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sussex County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 888 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 4, 1:27 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:27 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 123 PM TUE JUL 4 1995 WBC...LIKED WRKZFP...CUD ADD 20% OR 30% FOR INTERIOR VA ZNS TMRW. RDU...NO CHGS. CWFWBC...NO CHGS. CWFRDU...NO CHGS. ON THE SHORT TERM...ADAP AND SFC PLOT NAILING AREA OF SCT PINPOINT SIZED RW/TRW. SSW WNDS OVR WRN VA/NC CNVRGS WTH SSE FLOW OVR ERN NC/VA. ADAP ALSO NAILING BEST CNVRGNC OVR NRN VA AND CNTRL MD. AXIS OF CNVCTN ALSO NCLY ALIGNS WTH WHERE CLOUDY/SUNNY LN WAS THS MORN. SAT PIX SHWS THE INTERIOR CLOUDS CONT TO DSPT. SAT PIX ALSO SHWS LTL S/WV OVR NRN GULF MVG TWD NC/VA WHCH CUD ARRIVE TMRW. SW FLOW INLAND TOOK ME A LTL OFFGUARD BUT NOW THAT IT'S ESTABLISHED...SHUD CONT THRU THE DAY AND AXIS OF CNVRGNC SHUD SLWLY SHFT INLAND. ATMOSPHERE TOO UNIFORMLY UNSTBL FOR SVR TRW...ALL RW/TRW FIGHTING EACH OTHER. ON THE BROADER SCENE...12Z MDLS CAN'T BE USED IN THIS SITUATION...IN A GENERAL SENSE...BNDRY LYR WND FLDS SUGG CONT CNVRGNC OF SW FLOW INLAND AND ONSHOR FLOW ON COAST. NGM HAS BEST HNDL ON Q-VEC FRCG BUT ETA AND NGM AMBIGUOUS WTH LOW LVL MOISTURE CNVRGNC. LOW LVL THETA-E RDG POKES INTO CNTRL AND WRN VA WTH STG GRAD ALG THE COAST DUE TO MARITIME INFLUENCE. AVN DSN'T HV ABILITY TO RESOLVE LTL S/WVS AND NOTICED ETA AND NGM HV A WK VORT LOBE SWINGING THRU CNTRL/WRN NC/VA WTH SHEAR AXIS THRU ERN VA/NC TMRW. SYS OVR NRN GULF CUD PROPAGATE TO NC/VA AND HELP TRIGGER TRW TMRW. ALL THIS ADDS UP TO SIMILAR CONDS TMRW AS TDY SO AT LEAST SLGT CHC FOR TMRW EVEN THO GDNC LWRD POPS FOR TMRW. NGM INTERESTING THO WTH FRLY DEEP N FLOW ABV H5 IN 24-48 HRS. CUD BE PRECURSOR TO BACKDOOR IN XTND PDS. CSTL WTRS FCSTS GUD PER CURRENT CONDS...TRENDS AND GDNC. RIC 70/90/71/90 2333 ORF 71/88/71/90 2233 SBY 70/90/70/91 2223 ECG 72/88/72/89 2233 NS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 4, 3:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
VAZ074-075-076-042145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 349 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE NORTHERN NECK AREA OF VIRGINIA... WESTMORELAND AND RICHMOND COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED SOME PONDING OF WATER WAS BEGINNING TO OCCUR ON SECONDARY ROADS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP OVER THE AREA...MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH. WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE AREA TODAY AND RAINFALL RATES CONTINUE TO BE AROUND 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY 5PM. RESIDENTS IN THE NORTHERN NECK AREA OF VIRGINIA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE LOCAL FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DRIVE THROUGH DEEP WATER ON ROADWAYS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS SO PEOPLE ARE ADVISED TO STAY INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. REPORT ANY FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
VAZ074-075-076-042145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 349 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE NORTHERN NECK AREA OF VIRGINIA... WESTMORELAND AND RICHMOND COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED SOME PONDING OF WATER WAS BEGINNING TO OCCUR ON SECONDARY ROADS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP OVER THE AREA...MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH. WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE AREA TODAY AND RAINFALL RATES CONTINUE TO BE AROUND 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY 5PM. RESIDENTS IN THE NORTHERN NECK AREA OF VIRGINIA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE LOCAL FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DRIVE THROUGH DEEP WATER ON ROADWAYS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS SO PEOPLE ARE ADVISED TO STAY INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. REPORT ANY FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 5:10 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
VAZ081-088-089-042215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 510 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA... AT 500 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WESTERN SUSSEX AND PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF STONY CREEK AND CARSON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF SURRY AND CHARLES CITY COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 1.5 INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR WERE NOTED NEAR STONY CREEK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS WITH THESE STORMS. DS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 5:11 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
VAZ081-088-089-042215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 510 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA... AT 500 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WESTERN SUSSEX AND PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF STONY CREEK AND CARSON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF SURRY AND CHARLES CITY COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 1.5b INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR WERE NOTED NEAR STONY CREEK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS WITH THESE STORMS. DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, Sussex | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Southampton | 81 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 1995Every 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.