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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2012, 10:03 AM EDT for Northampton County, North Carolina. It was in force for 87 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
- Aug 19, 2012, 10:03 AM EDT (14:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2012, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Northampton County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
740
WGUS51 KAKQ 191403
FFWAKQ
NCC131-191530-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.FF.W.0003.120819T1403Z-120819T1530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1003 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY...
* UNTIL 1130 AM EDT...
* AT 1000 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWESTERN NORTHAMPTON
COUNTY.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GARYSBURG.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN! NEVER TRY
TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE
RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
&&
LAT...LON 3634 7755 3636 7758 3638 7755 3641 7756
3644 7763 3648 7765 3648 7777 3650 7781
3650 7788 3651 7790 3654 7790 3654 7735
$$
JBILLETThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Warren | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 9:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 10:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 11:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hertford | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 11:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hertford | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 11:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Perquimans | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 12:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 12:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 56 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.