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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Wakefield, VA

February 15, 2021Charles City County, James City County, New Kent County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this areal flood warning at Feb 15, 2021, 10:28 PM EST for Charles City County, James City County, New Kent County, Virginia. It was in force for 8 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 2021, 10:28 PM EST (03:28 UTC)
Expired: Feb 23, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 8 days
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Charles City County, VA, James City County, VA, New Kent County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 603 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 759 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 15, 8:36 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 8:36 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 15, 10:14 PM EST	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	21 days
Feb 16, 2:34 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		26 min
Feb 16, 4:10 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 28 more	35 hr
Feb 16, 7:49 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Mecklenburg	6 hr
Feb 16, 2:42 PM EST	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Sussex	4 days
Feb 16, 2:47 PM EST	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	37 hr
Feb 16, 6:10 PM EST	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Prince Edward	24 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2021 Every areal flood warning in 2021

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.