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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Wakefield, VA

September 30, 20224 counties in North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 30, 2022, 2:45 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. 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: Sep 30, 2022, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2022, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 601 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 915 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 Sep 30, 1:49 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 1:49 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 12:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 30, 12:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1200 PM EDT FRI SEP 30 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1123 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 1 WNW GREENBRIER        36.79N 76.23W
09/30/2022                   CITY OF CHESAPEAKE VA   PUBLIC

            REPORT FROM MPING: 1-INCH TREE LIMBS BROKEN;
            SHINGLES BLOWN OFF.

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SCW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 30, 12:50 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	AKQ	Northampton, City of Hampton, City of Virginia Beach	12 hr
Sep 30, 2:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	York, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson and 3 more	3 hr
Sep 30, 5:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Sep 30, 5:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	24 min
Sep 30, 5:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	16 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.