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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Feb 6, 2020, 10:13 PM EST for Bertie County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 7, 2020, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2020, 10:13 PM EST (03:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2020, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2020, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 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 03:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Cashie River near Windsor (WNDN7). The gauge peaked at 10.73 ft at Feb 8, 2020, 2:00 AM EST.
- 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 Feb 6, 6:27 PM EST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 6:27 PM EST, 3 hours 46 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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| Feb 6, 8:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 91 min | |
| Feb 6, 9:05 PM EST | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 66 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:52 PM EST | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Prince Edward | 47 hr |
| Feb 7, 1:40 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 14 hr |
| Feb 7, 6:53 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 12 hr |
| Feb 7, 7:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Caroline, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Louisa and 1 more | 45 min |
| Feb 7, 7:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex, City of Petersburg | 44 min |
| Feb 7, 8:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent, City of Colonial Heights and 1 more | 52 min |
| Feb 7, 8:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex | 21 min |
| Feb 7, 8:16 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Essex, Westmoreland | 44 min |
| Feb 7, 8:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Charles City, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews and 9 more | 39 min |
| Feb 7, 8:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Franklin, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk and 4 more | 51 min |
| Feb 7, 8:47 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 58 min | |
| Feb 7, 8:51 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 54 min | |
| Feb 7, 9:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 70 hr |
| Feb 7, 9:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Isle of Wight, Mathews, York, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton and 6 more | 38 min |
| Feb 7, 9:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 48 min |
| Feb 7, 9:35 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 55 min | |
| Feb 7, 9:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 45 min |
| Feb 7, 9:47 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 58 min | |
| Feb 7, 9:53 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 52 min | |
| Feb 7, 9:55 AM EST | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond | 63 hr |
| Feb 7, 5:54 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 13 hr | |
| Feb 6, 8:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Camden | 48 min |
| Feb 6, 8:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 38 min |
| Feb 7, 8:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Wicomico | 48 min |
| Feb 7, 9:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 67 min |
| Feb 7, 10:58 AM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 7 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.