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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Oct 11, 2018, 11:31 AM EDT for Amelia County, Chesterfield County, Powhatan County, Virginia. It took effect at Oct 11, 2018, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 2018, 11:31 AM EDT (15:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 11, 2018, 10:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2018, 5:33 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 days
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Amelia County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, Powhatan County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Appomattox River at Mattoax (MTXV2). The gauge peaked at 28.72 ft at Oct 14, 2018, 9:00 PM EDT.
- Action stage
- 18 ft
- Minor stage
- 21 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 28 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02040000, 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 11, 10:11 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 10:11 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 5:26 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton | 11 hr |
| Oct 11, 10:12 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 21 hr |
| Oct 11, 11:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 4 days |
| Oct 11, 11:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie | 68 hr |
| Oct 11, 11:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 5 days |
| Oct 11, 11:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Prince Edward | 51 hr |
| Oct 11, 11:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, City of Petersburg | 7 days |
| Oct 11, 3:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 34 min |
| Oct 11, 4:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Prince Edward | 24 min |
| Oct 11, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Powhatan and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway | 36 min |
| Oct 11, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie | 28 min |
| Oct 11, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan | 13 min |
| Oct 11, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Goochland, Hanover, Louisa | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 15 min |
| Oct 11, 6:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 6:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 6:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Powhatan | 5 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico | 5 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hanover, King William, New Kent | 28 min |
| Oct 11, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews, York | 25 min |
| Oct 11, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 24 min | |
| Oct 11, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William, New Kent, York | 23 min |
| Oct 11, 7:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, King and Queen, Middlesex | 32 min |
| Oct 11, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover, King William, New Kent | 17 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.