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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 9, 20114 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Sep 9, 2011, 8:52 AM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Sep 10, 2011, 11:36 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2011, 8:52 AM EDT (12:52 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 10, 2011, 11:36 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 16, 2011, 1:53 PM EDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties City of Franklin, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Southampton County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:53 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 Blackwater River (VA) above Franklin (FKNV2). The gauge peaked at 14.31 ft at Sep 12, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 6.8 ft
Minor stage: 10.8 ft
Moderate stage: 14.8 ft
Major stage: 18.8 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02049500, 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 Sep 9, 4:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 4:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 8, 9:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover and 14 more	53 min
Sep 8, 10:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, Henrico and 12 more	3 hr
Sep 9, 8:52 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Southampton	3 days
Sep 9, 9:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lancaster, Mathews, Northumberland	48 min
Sep 9, 5:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, Henrico and 13 more	4 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.