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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Sep 21, 2016, 6:43 AM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 21, 2016, 10:04 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2016, 6:43 AM EDT (10:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 21, 2016, 10:04 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2016, 1:27 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 days
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Bertie County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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 Cashie River near Windsor (WNDN7). The gauge peaked at 13.98 ft at Sep 23, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT.
- Action stage
- 6 ft
- Minor stage
- 8 ft
- Moderate stage
- 10 ft
- Major stage
- 12 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 0208111310, 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 Sep 21, 3:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 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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| Sep 20, 8:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Franklin, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 67 min |
| Sep 20, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 4:00 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson, City of Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:59 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Northampton, Surry, York and 6 more | 13 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, York, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson, City of Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:59 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:04 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin | 11 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 11 hr |
| Sep 20, 8:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Camden, Gates, Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 10:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 55 min |
| Sep 21, 7:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Perquimans | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Perquimans | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 2 more | 11 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.