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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 24, 1999Cumberland County, Prince Edward County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1999, 8:29 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1999, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1999, 10:25 PM EDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cumberland County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA

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 24, 1:50 PM EDT, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 1:50 PM EDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before

WAKEFIELD FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
150 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999

TNGT...LOTS OF CNVCTN FIRING NOW...VIL OF DAY SEEMS TO BE LWR 60S...
AND WL KP AN EYE FOR BOWING STORMS.  EXTREME LTG ASSOC WTH STORMS...
SO LTG CUD KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES JUST AS WNDS CUD.  WL
UP POPS JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE TNGT...AND LOWS SHUD BE IN 70S
THROUGHOUT.  SFC WNSHFT TO W AND NW OVRNGT MOST AREAS.

TMRW...BESIDES A PSBL LINGERING TSTM OVR HMPTN RDS OR NERN NC...
CLRG AND DEW PTS DROPPING INTO UPR 60S.  H8 TEMPS ONLY DROP A LTL...
SO HGHS IN LWR/MID 90S MOST AREAS WTH STDY W TO NW WNDS.  DEW PTS
SHUD BE LOW ENUF TO PRVNT HT ADVSY WTH TEMPS IN LWR/MID 90S.

TMRW NGT...UPR TROF AMPLIFIES ALG THE COAST AND CONT COOLING AT
H8.  TEMPS WL FALL TO UPR 60S LWR MD TO ARND 70 MANY OTHE RPLCS...
LWR 70S HMPTN RDS AND NERN NC.

MONDAY...WNDS WL SHFT TO MORE N AND NE SO CSTL AREAS SHUD SEE UPR
80S TO ARND 90 WHL INLAND AREAS WL SEE ARND 90.

NOW ITS TIME TO GET BACK TO THE RADAR

.AKQ...SVR TSTM WATCH VAZ048-049-060-064 UNTIL 7 PM AND
SVR TSTM WATCH ALL OTHER VAZ AND MDZ UNTIL 9 PM.

NS

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