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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 10, 2008Brunswick County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at May 10, 2008, 12:01 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Virginia. It took effect at May 10, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2008, 12:01 PM EDT (16:01 UTC)
In effect from
May 10, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired
May 10, 2008, 6:20 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Flood severity
Minor

County Brunswick County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Meherrin River near Lawrenceville (LAWV2). The gauge peaked at 15.14 ft at May 10, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT.

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Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
25 ft
Major stage
29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02051500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at May 10, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 4:10 PM EDTCoastal Flood WatchAKQWorcester37 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2008Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.