Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Wakefield, VA

Issued

Aug 3, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)

Expired

Aug 3, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Wakefield, VA

Area

Whole counties

County Hertford County, NC

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS51 KAKQ 032146
FFWAKQ
NCC091-032245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
545 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HERTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 540 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING EAST WEST 
  ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF HERTFORD COUNTY AND THEN SOUTHEAST INTO 
  HALIFAX. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN 
  PORTION OF HERTFORD COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM.  

* DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED  THAT BETWEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN WITH 
  ISOLATED 4 INCH AMOUNTS HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN THIS AREA. 

* 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...AHOSKIE AND COFIELD.

* HERTFORD COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED HIGH WATER ON HARRELLSVILLE 
  HIGHWAY BETWEEN AHOSKIE AND HARRELLSVILLE. 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED 
AREA.

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. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY
=VEHICLES. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE
TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$

SHADE

NWS Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 3, 3:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED CCF PORTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
355 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000

AFTN CNVTN MOST PREVALENT ALG CST WHERE INSTABILITY MAXIMIZED DUE
PROLONGED SFC HTG. MONITORING AREAS OF HVY DOWNPOURS FOR FLOODING
REPORTS WHERE RADAR ESTIMATING UP TO 2 IN/HR RAINFALL RATES. HV ALSO
SEEN A WIND GUST NR 40 MPH AT FKN ARND 3 PM.

UPR TROF OVR GRT LKS/OHVLY GRADUALLY SHUNTED EWD NEXT FEW DAYS AND
WL BE MOVING OFF ERN CBOARD ON SAT. WL NEED TO CONT WITH CHCY POPS
FOR SCT/BKN CNVTN TIL THEN AND WL HV CONT THREAT OF ISOLD DOWNPOURS.
AS A SIDE NOTE...AKQ 88D STILL OPERATING IN TROPICAL Z/R
RELATIONSHIP AND LOOKS TO BE OVERESTIMATING SLIGHTLY.

OVERALL...WE FAVOR COMPROMISE ETA SOLN WRT FRONTAL POSN FRI NGT/SAT.
FRONT SHUD GRAD DROP THUR FA AND BE LOCATED ALG NRN OTR BANKS BY
MIDDAY SAT. DEEPER MOISTURE/MARGINAL INSTABILITY HANGS BACK INTO NE
NC ON SAT SO WL KP LOW CHC TS THERE ON SAT. ELSW...WL GRAD END PCPN
AFT MIDNIGHT FRI NGT FM N TO S WITH NO POPS SAT EXCEPT LOW CHC EARLY
OVR HAMPTON ROADS.

MID RANGE MDL CONCENSUS BUILDS UPR RDG OVR SE US INTO EARLY NEXT
WEEK. WL GO DRY IN EXTNND PDS FOR NOW.

WL SEND ZFPAKQ IN A FEW.

FCSTID = 20
RIC   72  87  68  86 /  40  40  40  10
ORF   75  89  71  84 /  50  40  40  30
ECG   74  87  70  85 /  50  40  40  30
SBY   73  87  67  84 /  50  40  40  10

.AKQ...
MD...NONE.
NC...NONE.
VA...NONE.

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.