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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 2019, 5:12 AM EDT for Camden County, Currituck County, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 2019, 5:12 AM EDT (09:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2019, 4:28 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 6, 4:21 AM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 4:21 AM EDT, 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 9:34 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Surry and 5 more | 26 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:58 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Gloucester, James City, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex and 10 more | 38 hr |
| Sep 6, 3:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:16 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 32 hr | |
| Sep 6, 5:51 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 23 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:51 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 23 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Perquimans | 17 min |
| Sep 6, 12:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 25 min |
| Sep 6, 12:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans | 10 hr |
| Sep 6, 12:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Hertford, Perquimans | 25 min |
| Sep 6, 3:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:46 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 9 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:40 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 6 hr |
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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.