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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 23, 2023City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2023, 2:35 PM EDT for City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, 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: Jun 23, 2023, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2023, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Jun 22, 3:20 PM EDT, 23 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:20 PM EDT, 23 hours 15 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 23, 12:42 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Northumberland, Westmoreland	10 hr
Jun 23, 2:53 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		45 min
Jun 23, 3:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		39 min
Jun 23, 4:46 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		44 min
Jun 23, 7:03 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		42 min
Jun 23, 7:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		51 min
Jun 23, 10:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		53 min
Jun 23, 10:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	37 min
Jun 23, 10:31 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		59 min
Jun 23, 10:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	28 min
Jun 23, 11:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		54 min
Jun 23, 12:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	York, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	30 min
Jun 23, 12:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	2 hr
Jun 23, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	8 min
Jun 23, 1:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Jun 23, 1:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		55 min
Jun 23, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Colonial Heights, City of Richmond	50 min
Jun 23, 1:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Colonial Heights, City of Richmond	116 min
Jun 23, 2:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Essex, King and Queen, King William, Richmond	2 hr
Jun 23, 2:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Jun 23, 2:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	114 min
Jun 23, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City	46 min
Jun 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, City of Williamsburg	50 min
Jun 23, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		43 min
Jun 23, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, Mathews	50 min
Jun 23, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Hampton, City of Poquoson	42 min
Jun 23, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		52 min
Jun 23, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Poquoson	3 hr
Jun 23, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	26 min
Jun 23, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mecklenburg	41 min
Jun 23, 5:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 23, 5:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, York, City of Newport News	2 hr
Jun 23, 5:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Prince George, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	114 min
Jun 23, 6:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Petersburg	113 min
Jun 22, 10:16 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	13 hr
Jun 23, 10:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	43 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.