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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 31, 2000Brunswick County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2000, 9:02 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Virginia. It was in force for 88 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 31, 2000, 9:02 PM EDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2000, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Brunswick County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 412 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KAKQ 010105
FFWAKQ
VAC025-010230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
902 PM EDT MON JUL 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 854 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR GASBURG...MOVING       
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED TWO TO THREE INCHES   
  OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE PAST HOUR OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS   
  OF THE COUNTY.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH
  FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH       
  FLOODING INCLUDE...EBONY...VALENTINES...BOWERS                     
  CORNER...LAWRENCEVILLE...BRUNSWICK AND GASBURG.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN 
THE WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES...AS WELL AS
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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 HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN WAKEFIELD.

$$

HESS/MALOIT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 10:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Southampton	32 min
Jul 31, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Southampton, City of Franklin	30 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.