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River Flood Warning 55, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Dec 17, 2020, 9:48 AM EST for Brunswick County, Virginia. It took effect at Dec 17, 2020, 2:30 PM EST. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2020, 9:48 AM EST (14:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 17, 2020, 2:30 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2020, 10:11 AM EST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Brunswick County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Meherrin River near Lawrenceville (LAWV2). The gauge peaked at 16.20 ft at Dec 18, 2020, 12:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 12 ft
- Minor stage
- 15 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 29 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02051500, 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 Dec 16, 6:53 PM EST, 14 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 6:53 PM EST, 14 hours 55 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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| Dec 17, 6:23 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 30 hr | |
| Dec 17, 5:23 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Worcester | 5 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.