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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

January 16, 2013Brunswick County, Dinwiddie County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Jan 16, 2013, 1:48 PM EST for Brunswick County, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 16, 2013, 1:48 PM EST (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Jan 17, 2013, 3:37 PM EST
In force: 26 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Brunswick County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Nottoway River near Rawlings (RAWV2). The gauge peaked at 11.25 ft at Jan 16, 2013, 10:00 PM EST.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02044500, 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 Jan 16, 10:31 AM EST, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 16, 10:31 AM EST, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 16, 9:39 AM EST, 4 hours 9 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
Jan 16, 2:35 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Fluvanna and 11 more	14 hr
Jan 16, 4:08 PM EST	Gale Warning	AKQ		39 hr
Jan 16, 4:08 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		56 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

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.