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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 30, 20244 counties in North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2024, 7:50 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 4 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 30, 2024, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2024, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 1755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1355 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 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 Jun 30, 7:45 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 7:45 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 5:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 6:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 6:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 7:05 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 7:08 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:25 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 7:36 PM EDT, 14 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 30, 3:45 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		39 hr
Jun 30, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City	48 min
Jun 30, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Middlesex	45 min
Jun 30, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Middlesex, New Kent	43 min
Jun 30, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, City of Williamsburg	52 min
Jun 30, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		63 min
Jun 30, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Mathews	44 min
Jun 30, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		43 min
Jun 30, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	York, City of Williamsburg	39 min
Jun 30, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, York, City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg	50 min
Jun 30, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie	40 min
Jun 30, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		66 min
Jun 30, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	47 min
Jun 30, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	39 min
Jun 30, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	50 min
Jun 30, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		44 min
Jun 30, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		55 min
Jun 30, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Surry, Sussex	39 min
Jun 30, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	44 min
Jun 30, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		57 min
Jun 30, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	42 min
Jun 30, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		68 min
Jun 30, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester	38 min
Jun 30, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	50 min
Jun 30, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	46 min
Jun 30, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	47 min
Jun 30, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	41 min
Jun 30, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Newport News	39 min
Jun 30, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	50 min
Jun 30, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		61 min
Jun 30, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	50 min
Jun 30, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	43 min
Jun 30, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		85 min
Jun 30, 4:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin	48 min
Jun 30, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	49 min
Jun 30, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		46 min
Jun 30, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more	19 min
Jun 30, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	New Kent	39 min
Jun 30, 5:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	2 hr
Jun 30, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg, Nottoway	41 min
Jun 30, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, City of Hopewell	34 min
Jun 30, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		2 hr
Jun 30, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	60 min
Jun 30, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	47 min
Jun 30, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		74 min
Jun 30, 6:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Henrico, New Kent	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie	38 min
Jun 30, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline	50 min
Jun 30, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	Caroline, King and Queen, King William	41 min
Jun 30, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover	27 min
Jun 30, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William	45 min
Jun 30, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lunenburg	50 min
Jun 30, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden	41 min
Jun 30, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck	39 min
Jun 30, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	47 min
Jun 30, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	66 min
Jun 30, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	50 min

Nearby

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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.