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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2004, 5:54 PM EDT for 6 counties in 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
- Aug 30, 2004, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chesterfield County, VA, City of Richmond, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, King William County, VA, New Kent County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 30, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 330 PM EDT MON AUG 30 2004 .SYNOPSIS...A TRPLCL TRIPPLE HEADER WITH GASTON OVRHD...HERMINE TO THE EAST WITH FRANCES APPRCHG THE LEEWARD ISLANDS. && .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT)...COMBO OF DYTME HTNG AND WND SHEAR ASSCTD WITH GASTONS CIRCULATION HAS LEAD TO SOME IMPRESSIVE RADAR SIGNITURES THIS AFTRN. SVRL RPRTS OF FUNNEL CLDS AS WELL AS SOME TOUCHDOWNS PAST SVRL HRS AND ITS NOT OVR YET. SEE LSRAKQ FOR DAMAGE RPRTS. CENTER OF GASTON NR RZZ AND CONTS TO MOVE SLOWLY NE. THUS EXPCT SVR THREAT TO BE ENDING ACROSS WRN PIEDMONT CNTYS NXT FEW HRS BUT INCRS AS SPIRAL BANDS APPRCH SERN VA AND ERN SHORE. WILL CONT WITH HIGH POPS THIS EVE...THEN TAPER OFF AFTR MIDNITE AS SYSTM EXITS OFF OF DELMARVA CST BY 12Z. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY)...GASTON CONTS TO MOVE NE AND AWAY FROM RGN TUES...BUT FRNTL BNDRY APPRCHS FROM W. APPEARS SERN AREAS WILL HAVE BEST CHC FOR PCPN WITH THIS FTR TUE AFTRN/EVE. DRYER & COOLER AIR WED THRU FRI. NEXT SYSTM TO BE WATCHED IS FRANCES... WHICH LTST GFS TAKES INTO SRN FLA BY 12Z SAT. && .AVIATION...EPCT GUSTY WINDS WITH LCL IFR/MVFR CNDTNS AS RAIN & EMBEDDED TSRA CROSS THE AREA THIS EVE. CDTNS IMPROVE AFTR 06Z. && .MARINE...SCA ALL AREAS AS WNDS FROM GASTON MOVES THRU TONITE. SEAS SHUD INCRS AS WELL AS HERMINE MOVES N AXROSS THE OFFSHORE WTRS. && .HYDROLOGY...NMRS RPRTS OF URBAN FLOODING DUE TO HVY DOWNPOURS. FFMP INDCTG SVRL CNTRL VA CNTYS IN THE 3-4 INCH RANGE ATTM...WITH MORE TO COME. LWR MD ERN SHORE ALRDY HAD SOME 2-3 INCH AMTS THIS AM. && .AKQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...SCA CSTL WTRS. NC...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CSTL WTRS AND CURRITUCK SND. TORNADO WTCH THRU 8 PM FOR CNTYS FROM GATES ON E TO THE NRN OB. VA...SCA CSTL WTRS AND CHES BAY S OF SMITH PT. TORNADO WTCH THRU 8 PM FOR ALL VA CNTYS IN AKQ FA. && SHORT TERM/LONG TERM...44 AVIATION/MARINE...18
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 5:36 AM EDT, 12 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 536 AM EDT MON AUG 30 2004 MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-310900- ACCOMACK VA-AMELIA VA-BERTIE NC-BRUNSWICK VA-CAMDEN NC-CAROLINE VA- CHARLES CITY VA-CHESAPEAKE VA-CHESTERFIELD VA-CHOWAN NC- CUMBERLAND VA-DINWIDDIE VA-DORCHESTER MD-EASTERN CURRITUCK NC- ESSEX VA-FLUVANNA VA-GATES NC-GLOUCESTER VA-GOOCHLAND VA- GREENSVILLE VA-HANOVER VA-HENRICO VA-HERTFORD NC-INLAND WORCESTER MD- ISLE OF WIGHT VA-JAMES CITY VA-KING AND QUEEN VA-KING WILLIAM VA- LANCASTER VA-LOUISA VA-LUNENBURG VA-MARYLAND BEACHES MD-MATHEWS VA- MECKLENBURG VA-MIDDLESEX VA-NEW KENT VA-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON VA- NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH VA-NORTHAMPTON VA-NORTHAMPTON NC- NORTHUMBERLAND VA-NOTTOWAY VA-PASQUOTANK NC-PERQUIMANS NC- POWHATAN VA-PRINCE EDWARD VA-PRINCE GEORGE VA-RICHMOND VA- SOMERSET MD-SOUTHAMPTON VA-SUFFOLK VA-SURRY VA-SUSSEX VA- VIRGINIA BEACH VA-WESTERN CURRITUCK NC-WESTMORELAND VA-WICOMICO MD- YORK VA- 530 AM EDT MON AUG 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE EASTERN MARYLAND SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY... REMNANTS OF GASTON WILL MOVE FROM SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA LATE THIS MORNING...TO THE CENTRAL DELMARVA TONIGHT. ALONG THIS TRACK...WIDESPREAD RAINFALL IS EXPECTED...AND WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES...WHILE CLOSER TO THE COAST IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ARE LIKELY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY NEAR THE TRACK OF THE REMNANTS OF GASTON. MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY FOR ALL ATLANTIC BEACHES FROM OCEAN CITY MARYLAND TO VIRGINIA BEACH AND CURRITUCK OUTER BANKS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FORECASTER ID 25 THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN WAKEFIELD, VA CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.ERH.NOAA.GOV/AKQ.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 30, 5:04 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 525 PM EDT MON AUG 30 2004 MDZ023-024-NCZ008-010-012-013-016-017-102-VAZ037-046>050-055>100- 310000- 525 PM EDT MON AUG 30 2004 TORNADO WATCH #797 HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE FOLLOWING AREAS... IN VIRGINIA... AMELIA...BRUNSWICK...CUMBERLAND...FLUVANNA... GOOCHLAND...LOUISA...LUNENBURG...MECKLENBURG...NOTTOWAY...POWHATAN AND PRINCE EDWARD IN NORTH CAROLINA... CAMDEN...CHOWAN...EASTERN CURRITUCK... GATES...PASQUOTANK...PERQUIMANS AND WESTERN CURRITUCK SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN ASSOCIATION WITH TROPICAL DEPRESSION GASTON HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. TORNADO WATCH #797 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS... IN VIRGINIA... ACCOMACK...CAROLINE...CHARLES CITY...CHESAPEAKE... CHESTERFIELD...DINWIDDIE...ESSEX...GLOUCESTER...GREENSVILLE... HANOVER...HENRICO...ISLE OF WIGHT...JAMES CITY...KING AND QUEEN... KING WILLIAM...LANCASTER...MATHEWS...MIDDLESEX...NEW KENT...NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON...NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH...NORTHAMPTON...NORTHUMBERLAND... PRINCE GEORGE...RICHMOND...SOUTHAMPTON...SUFFOLK...SURRY...SUSSEX... VIRGINIA BEACH...WESTMORELAND AND YORK SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN ASSOCIATION WITH TROPICAL DEPRESSION GASTON WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE STILL POSSIBLE AS THE CENTER OF THE STORM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA.
Local storm report, Aug 30, 5:39 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
539 PM EDT MON AUG 30 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0513 PM FLASH FLOOD MECHANICSVILLE 37.63N 77.36W
08/30/2004 HANOVER VA COUNTY OFFICIAL
SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTY.
&&
LYNCHLocal storm report, Aug 30, 5:40 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
540 PM EDT MON AUG 30 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0145 PM TORNADO HOPEWELL 37.29N 77.30W
08/30/2004 CITY OF HOPEWELL VA BROADCAST MEDIA
POSSIBLE TORNADO APPOMATOX MANOR. 25 TO 30 TREES BLOWN
DOWN. DAMAGE TO SHED.
0435 PM TORNADO TALLEYSVILLE 37.52N 77.08W
08/30/2004 NEW KENT VA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN. POSSIBLE TORNADO.
&&
REILLYLocal storm report, Aug 30, 5:52 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
552 PM EDT MON AUG 30 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0200 PM TSTM WND DMG CLAREMONT 37.23N 76.97W
08/30/2004 SURRY VA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN. POSSIBLE TORNADO.
&&
REILLYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 11:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 32 min |
| Aug 30, 12:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 20 min |
| Aug 30, 1:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Henrico, Prince George, City of Hopewell | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 1:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 25 min |
| Aug 30, 1:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | James City | 22 min |
| Aug 30, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, York, City of Williamsburg | 25 min |
| Aug 30, 3:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 14 min |
| Aug 30, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hanover, New Kent | 24 min |
| Aug 30, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Essex, Hanover, Henrico and 4 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.