Alert archive / Virginia / Flood Watches in 2011
Flood Watch 2, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flood watch at Mar 10, 2011, 3:58 AM EST for 7 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2011, 3:58 AM EST (08:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2011, 9:23 PM EST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
Counties Amelia County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 748 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Mar 10, 1:16 AM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 1:16 AM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:03 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Lancaster, Northumberland, Westmoreland | 29 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, James City, New Kent and 7 more | 52 min |
| Mar 10, 2:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Henrico, City of Hopewell | 43 min |
| Mar 10, 3:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 59 min |
| Mar 10, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Prince Edward | 58 min |
| Mar 10, 4:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Prince Edward | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 4:25 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, City of Emporia | 65 min |
| Mar 10, 4:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Goochland, Nottoway, Powhatan | 54 min |
| Mar 10, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex | 52 min |
| Mar 10, 5:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico and 4 more | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Goochland, Hanover, Louisa, Powhatan | 60 min |
| Mar 10, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent and 6 more | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 5:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, City of Chesapeake, City of Emporia, City of Franklin, City of Portsmouth and 1 more | 54 min |
| Mar 10, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, Henrico, James City and 7 more | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 6:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, King William, Richmond, Westmoreland | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 6:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk and 2 more | 60 min |
| Mar 10, 6:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex and 4 more | 52 min |
Nearby
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.