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Flash Flood Warning 142, NWS Wakefield, VA

October 1, 2024Chesterfield County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 1, 2024, 7:33 AM EDT for Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was in force for 5 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: Oct 1, 2024, 7:33 AM EDT (11:33 UTC)
Expired: Oct 1, 2024, 12:35 PM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Chesterfield County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:32 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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, 7:54 PM EDT, 11 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 7:54 PM EDT, 11 hours 39 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
Sep 30, 8:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Cumberland	3 hr
Sep 30, 9:08 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Watch	AKQ	Essex, James City, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland and 6 more	29 hr
Sep 30, 9:08 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	AKQ	Essex, James City, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland and 5 more	33 hr
Sep 30, 11:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Cumberland	6 hr
Oct 1, 5:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	2 hr
Oct 1, 6:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	110 min
Oct 1, 6:30 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville	24 hr
Oct 1, 6:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chesterfield	2 hr
Oct 1, 7:26 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Prince Edward	35 hr
Oct 1, 7:59 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	5 hr
Oct 1, 9:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	5 hr
Oct 1, 9:49 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Goochland, Powhatan	24 hr
Oct 1, 12:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	3 hr
Sep 30, 9:08 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	6 hr
Sep 30, 10:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Bertie	5 hr
Oct 1, 5:57 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	20 hr

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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.