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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA

January 17, 2013Sussex County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Jan 17, 2013, 8:52 AM EST for Sussex County, Virginia. It took effect at Jan 17, 2013, 9:40 PM EST. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 2013, 8:52 AM EST (13:52 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 17, 2013, 9:40 PM EST
Expired: Jan 21, 2013, 5:11 AM EST
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Flood severity: Minor

County Sussex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:55 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 Nottoway River near Stony Creek (STYV2). The gauge peaked at 16.76 ft at Jan 19, 2013, 10:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02045500, 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 17, 7:17 AM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 7:17 AM EST, 1 hour 35 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 17, 3:32 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		9 hr
Jan 17, 4:15 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Cumberland, Dinwiddie and 26 more	23 hr
Jan 17, 4:15 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	23 hr
Jan 17, 3:32 PM EST	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	42 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.