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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2022, 12:35 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2022, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2022, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mecklenburg County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 31, 9:24 AM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 9:24 AM EDT, 3 hours 11 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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| Jul 31, 11:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 66 min |
| Jul 31, 11:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Nottoway | 79 min |
| Jul 31, 12:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 12:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 117 min |
| Jul 31, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince Edward | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 2:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 2:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 112 min |
| Jul 31, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 62 min | |
| Jul 31, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson, City of Portsmouth and 1 more | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.