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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Wakefield, VA

December 26, 2015Southampton County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Dec 26, 2015, 1:09 PM EST for Southampton County, Virginia. It took effect at Dec 27, 2015, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 26, 2015, 1:09 PM EST (18:09 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 27, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 1, 2016, 3:38 AM EST
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Southampton County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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 river

Written for the forecast point Nottoway River near Sebrell (SEBV2). The gauge peaked at 17.98 ft at Dec 29, 2015, 10:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02047000, 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 Dec 25, 4:15 PM EST, 20 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 4:15 PM EST, 20 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 26, 12:08 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ	33 hr
Dec 26, 7:11 AM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ	6 hr
Dec 26, 9:47 AM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ	3 hr
Dec 26, 3:31 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ	20 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.