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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 21, 2023Bertie County, Hertford County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2023, 8:19 PM EDT for Bertie County, Hertford County, 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: Jun 21, 2023, 8:19 PM EDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2023, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bertie County, NC, Hertford County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 21, 8:09 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 8:09 PM EDT, 10 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
Jun 22, 6:29 AM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	AKQ		4 hr
Jun 22, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	39 min
Jun 22, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Southampton, Sussex	46 min
Jun 22, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	43 min
Jun 22, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	45 min
Jun 22, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	52 min
Jun 22, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex, City of Petersburg	38 min
Jun 22, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Newport News	46 min
Jun 22, 3:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dinwiddie	2 hr
Jun 22, 3:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Nottoway	3 hr
Jun 22, 4:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Nottoway	3 hr
Jun 22, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Bertie	41 min
Jun 22, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates, Hertford, Northampton	44 min
Jun 22, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Hertford, Perquimans	51 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2023 Every flash flood warning in 2023

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.