Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Wakefield, VA

Issued

Aug 4, 2000, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)

Expired

Aug 4, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT

In force

74 min

Issued by

NWS Wakefield, VA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Goochland County, VA, Louisa County, VA

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000 
WGUS51 KAKQ 041748
FFWAKQ
VAC075-109-041900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
146 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GOOCHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
  LOUISA COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 142 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED
  STREET FLOODING IN THE TOWN OF LOUISA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY     
  HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MINERAL TO              
  HADENSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR            
  ESTIMATES UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAINPER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS.

* 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...GOOCHLAND...MINERAL AND HADENSVILLE.

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 WATErR SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE 
TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$

RUSNAK

NWS Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 4, 10:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
1045 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000

DSCN:
TRPLCL DOWNPOURS FROM FIRST S/W CONTG TO STREAM NE INTO NE NC & SERN VA
WHERE STORM TOTAL PCPN SHWNG OVR 6 IN IN BERTIE CNTY NC WITH 2-4 INCHES
COMMOM OVR SERN VA. THIS S/W SLOWLY MOVS E THIS AFTRN WITH SAT LOOP
SHWNG SOME BREAKS W OF I95 DUE TO WK SUBSIDENCE. BUT...NXT S/W HOT
ON ITS HEALS MARCHING ACROSS ERN TN WITH CDFRNT STALLED N OF AKQ FA.
WITH NXT SYSTM APPRCHG...ANY CLRG WILL RPDLY BE REPLACED BY CLDS DUE
TO MOIST AIRMASS OVRHD. THUS WILL KEEP MSTLY CLDY SKIES THIS AFTRN WITH
CHC POPS MOST AREAS. WILL CONT LIKELY TO CAT POPS WHERE IT CONTS TO
RAIN. STDY PCPN SHUD EXIT OFFSHORE AFTR 18Z...WITH MORE CONVECTION
FIRING UP LATER THIS AFTRN. HAVE LOWERED MAXES A BIT DUE TO MORE CLD
CVR.

FCSTID = 44
RIC   84  67  84  66 /  50  40  10  10
ORF   85  71  83  69 /  80  60  30  10
ECG   85  72  84  71 /  80  60  4y0  10
SBY   84  68  83  64 /  60  50  20  10

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

44

In the hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
939 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000

VAZ091-093>096-041438-
ISLE OF WIGHT VA-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON VA-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH VA-
SUFFOLK VA-YORK INCLUDING POQUOSON VA-
939 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000

...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO CREATE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS THIS
MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF HAMPTON ROADS...

HEAVY SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
ACROSS THE HAMPTON ROADS AREA THROUGH 11 AM. NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO ONE AND A HALF
INCHES PER HOUR MAY BE POSSIBLE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS EXPECTED
ACROSS THE CITIES OF HAMPTON AND NEWPORT NEWS. THIS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON PORTIONS OF INTERSTATE 64 AND OTHER HIGHWAYS
ACROSS HAMPTON ROADS...PLEASE USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING
THIS MORNING.

HESS

Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 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.