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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Jan 31, 2013, 8:41 AM EST for Fluvanna County, Virginia. It took effect at Jan 31, 2013, 11:11 AM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2013, 8:41 AM EST (13:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2013, 11:11 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2013, 5:24 AM EST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Fluvanna County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Rivanna River at Palmyra (PYAV2). The gauge peaked at 19.31 ft at Jan 31, 2013, 9:00 PM EST.
- Action stage
- 15 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 32 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02034000, 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 31, 7:08 AM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 7:08 AM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 30, 7:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 44 min |
| Jan 30, 10:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Goochland, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway and 2 more | 78 min |
| Jan 31, 12:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Essex and 15 more | 74 min |
| Jan 31, 12:35 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Greensville, City of Emporia | 40 min |
| Jan 31, 1:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Essex, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent, Richmond and 1 more | 56 min |
| Jan 31, 1:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Greensville, James City, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex and 6 more | 52 min |
| Jan 31, 1:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min | |
| Jan 31, 1:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews and 4 more | 34 min |
| Jan 31, 1:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Southampton and 8 more | 43 min |
| Jan 31, 2:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 37 min |
| Jan 31, 2:15 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 90 min | |
| Jan 31, 2:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 59 min |
| Jan 31, 4:03 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 45 hr | |
| Jan 31, 4:14 PM EST | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond | 60 hr |
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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.