Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1999, 8:18 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1999, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1999, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bertie County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 Sep 16, 12:25 PM EDT, 7 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 12:25 PM EDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before
WAKEFIELD AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1225 PM EDT THU SEP 16 1999
DISCN:
SORRY...DID NOT HAVE TIME TO ISSUE THIS ERLIER. FLOYD
MOVING QUICKLY NNE UP VA ERN SHR...AND WILL BE NE OF
OUR CWA BY SUNSET. RAIN WILL END SW TO NE THIS AFTN
AND WNDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING/TNGT.
.AKQ...HURRICANE WARNING FOR ATLC CSTL WTRS CURRITUCK BCH LGT
TO FENWICK ISLD...INCLDG SNDS...AND CHES BAY S OF SMITH PT
...TROPICAL STORM WARNING INTERIOR SE MD
...HIGH WIND WARNING/FLOOD WARNING CNTRL VA...NRN NE NC.
GINGRICHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Middlesex | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | James City, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson, City of Williamsburg | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Mathews | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Portsmouth | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | James City, King and Queen | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bladen | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 8 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.