Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2000, 6:43 PM EDT for Fauquier County, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 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
- May 13, 2000, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fauquier County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 680 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KAKQ 132244 FFWAKQ VAC061-157-140040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 643 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST VIRGINIA FAUQUIER COUNTY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 640 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR AMISSVILLE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED OVER 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR WITHN THIS STORM. * 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...BROKEN HILL...NEW BALTIMORE...WARRENTON... MARSHALL AND HACKLEYS CROSSROAD. 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 B)E ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ CULLEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 45 min |
| May 13, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 45 min |
| May 13, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 32 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.