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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2000, 5:35 PM EDT for Charles City County, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was in force for 55 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
- Aug 4, 2000, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KAKQ 042134 FFWAKQ VAC036-041-042230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 535 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHESTERFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA CHARLES CITY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 527 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHER CHARLES CITY COUNTY WEST TO CENTRAL CHESTERFIELD COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE SLOWLY MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM ADKINS STORE TO CHESTER. *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...CHESTER...CHARLES CITY AND BARNETTS AND ADKINS STORE. CHESTERFIELD DISPATCH REPORTED THAT HULL STREET AT COURTHOUSE ROAD WAS CLOSED. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. $$ SHADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 11:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 114 min |
| Aug 4, 1:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Goochland, Louisa | 74 min |
| Aug 4, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Richmond | 90 min |
| Aug 4, 3:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Henrico | 86 min |
| Aug 4, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northumberland, Westmoreland | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 5:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, New Kent | 88 min |
| Aug 4, 6:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Surry | 63 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.