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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Wakefield, VA

August 4, 2022City of Suffolk, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2022, 6:07 PM EDT for City of Suffolk, Virginia. It was in force for 3 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: Aug 4, 2022, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2022, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County City of Suffolk, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 729 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1307 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 4, 4:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 4:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 4:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:20 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:33 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:34 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:55 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 5:59 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:06 PM EDT, 1 minute 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
Aug 4, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	38 min
Aug 4, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	40 min
Aug 4, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Petersburg	40 min
Aug 4, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	42 min
Aug 4, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	64 min
Aug 4, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex, City of Petersburg	20 min
Aug 4, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	39 min
Aug 4, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen, King William	67 min
Aug 4, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, Sussex	62 min
Aug 4, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia	61 min
Aug 4, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, King William	35 min
Aug 4, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Nottoway	65 min
Aug 4, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	61 min
Aug 4, 4:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Sussex	3 hr
Aug 4, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia	65 min
Aug 4, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	49 min
Aug 4, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin	52 min
Aug 4, 4:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick	102 min
Aug 4, 5:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Sussex	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Goochland, Louisa	64 min
Aug 4, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	48 min
Aug 4, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	40 min
Aug 4, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	York, City of Poquoson	42 min
Aug 4, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex, Westmoreland	56 min
Aug 4, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		64 min
Aug 4, 5:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		58 min
Aug 4, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	50 min
Aug 4, 6:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Aug 4, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex	58 min
Aug 4, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	41 min
Aug 4, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		43 min
Aug 4, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	48 min
Aug 4, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		41 min
Aug 4, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	45 min
Aug 4, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	61 min
Aug 4, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Somerset	49 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.