Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 1995, 7:34 PM EDT for Southampton County, Virginia. It was in force for 81 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 8:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 81 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Southampton County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAKQ 042336 FFWAKQ VAC175-050130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 734 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY PRODUCING ONE HOUR RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 2.5 INCHES NEAR THE TOWNS OF CAPRON AND SEBRELL. ADJACENT RADARS INDICATED ONE HOUR ESTIMATES OF THREE INCHES. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE OVER SOUTHERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY OVER THE NEXT HOUR. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE ThO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH/COBB
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, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:27 PM EDT, 6 hours 7 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, 3:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 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, 3 hours 44 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, 2 hours 24 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, 2 hours 23 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
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 6:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
VAZ088-092-042330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 628 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SUSSEX COUNTY AND WESTERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SUSSEX COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM... AT 625 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DREWRYVILLE IN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ARE ENCOURAGED TO FORWARD ANY STORM REPORTS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-800-697-3373. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 6:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
VAZ088-092-042330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 628 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SUSSEX COUNTY AND WESTERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SUSSEX COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM... AT 625 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DREWRYVILLE IN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ARE ENCOURAGED TO FORWARD ANY STORM REPORTS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1-800-697-3373. ST^AY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
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, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 65 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 |
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.