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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 3, 2015Brunswick County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Oct 3, 2015, 10:02 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Virginia. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 3, 2015, 10:02 PM EDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired: Oct 4, 2015, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Brunswick County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 Meherrin River near Lawrenceville (LAWV2).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02051500, 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 Oct 3, 9:51 PM EDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 9:51 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 3, 9:28 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 3, 4:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
425 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

VAZ079-087-032100-
BRUNSWICK-GREENSVILLE-
425 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

...A SHOWER WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALLL WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN
GREENSVILLE AND SOUTHEASTERN BRUNSWICK COUNTIES...

AT 424 PM EDT...A SHOWER WAS NEAR EMPORIA...MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH.

UP TO 1 INCH OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SHOWER.

THIS SHOWER WILL BE NEAR...
  RADIUM AROUND 435 PM EDT.
  LAWRENCEVILLE AND BRUNSWICK AROUND 500 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SHOWER INCLUDE TURNERS CROSSROADS...
LANES CORNER...EDGERTON...DURAND...EMPORIA RESERVOIR...DOLPHIN...
ANTE...SLATES CORNER...TRIPLET AND BUFFORD CROSSROADS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION IN THE VICINITY OF THIS SHOWER. BE
PREPARED FOR RAPID CHANGES IN WEATHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS. HEAVY RAIN
COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS...AND POSSIBLE MINOR FLOODING
OF DITCHES AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3663 7796 3688 7784 3670 7744 3667 7750
      3667 7747 3666 7748 3665 7746 3655 7751
      3654 7759
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 111DEG 23KT 3665 7757

WRS

Special weather statement, Oct 3, 5:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
555 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

NCZ012-013-030-032245-
NORTHAMPTON-BERTIE-HERTFORD-
555 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

...A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN
HERTFORD...NORTHERN BERTIE AND SOUTHERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...

AT 554 PM EDT...A LINE OF SHOWERS WAS EXTENDING FROM NEAR LEWISTON
WOODVILLE TO NEAR POWELLSVILLE...AND MOVING WEST AT 35 MPH.

UP TO 1 INCH OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS.

THESE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR...
  ROXOBEL AROUND 600 PM EDT.
  AULANDER AROUND 620 PM EDT.
  RICH SQUARE AND WOODLAND AROUND 635 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE SHOWERS INCLUDE CONNARITSA...
EARLEYS...CREEKSVILLE...SAINT JOHN...PROCTORS CORNER...TRAP...
UNION...MILWAUKEE...BOONES CROSSROADS AND POTECASI.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION IN THE VICINITY OF THESE SHOWERS.
BE PREPARED FOR RAPID CHANGES IN WEATHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS. HEAVY
RAIN COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS...AND POSSIBLE MINOR
FLOODING OF DITCHES AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3616 7726 3617 7729 3617 7731 3619 7733
      3619 7735 3621 7739 3624 7738 3627 7741
      3629 7741 3632 7744 3631 7750 3630 7755
      3631 7757 3644 7724 3620 7675 3612 7725
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 109DEG 31KT 3614 7723 3618 7687

WRS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 3, 9:20 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 5 more	8 hr
Oct 4, 8:44 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, York and 5 more	19 hr
Oct 4, 5:59 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Accomack, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen and 20 more	56 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.