Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT for Hanover County, Henrico County, City of Richmond, Virginia. It was in force for 90 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties City of Richmond, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KAKQ 272231
FFWAKQ
VAC085-087-760-280000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
630 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CITY OF RICHMOND IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
HANOVER COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
HENRICO COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 625 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED FROM A THUNDERSTORM
NEAR DOWNTOWN RICHMOND...OR ABOUT OVER BON AIR...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR...
3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAUREL BY 645 PM EDT
OVER LAKESIDE AND 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAST HIGHLAND PARK BY 650 PM
EDT
4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLEN ALLEN BY 655 PM EDT
4 MILES NORTHWEST OF MECHANICSVILLE BY 700 PM EDT
4 MILES NORTHWEST OF STUDLEY BY 720 PM EDT
3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HANOVER BY 725 PM EDT
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3769 7719 3745 7745 3748 7751 3753 7753
3756 7764 3784 7743 3777 7740 3778 7734
3776 7735 3775 7731 3771 7729 3772 7724
3768 7724
$$
BROWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Northumberland, Westmoreland | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond | 92 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.