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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood watch at Sep 20, 2016, 3:28 AM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia; 9 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 2016, 3:28 AM EDT (07:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2016, 3:19 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Gates County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Southampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Sep 20, 2:30 AM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 2:30 AM EDT, 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 3:52 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 39 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:58 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 71 hr | |
| Sep 20, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 52 min |
| Sep 20, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Surry, York, City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg | 40 min |
| Sep 20, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 53 min |
| Sep 19, 9:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 49 min |
| Sep 20, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 51 min |
| Sep 20, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 55 min |
| Sep 20, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 43 min |
| Sep 20, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 65 min |
| Sep 20, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 63 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.