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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 12, 20244 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2024, 5:07 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 74 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 2024, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2024, 6:21 PM EDT
In force: 74 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 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 Jul 12, 2:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 2:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:24 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:39 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:46 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:48 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:51 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 5:03 PM EDT, 4 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
Jul 12, 3:37 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	AKQ	Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach	16 hr
Jul 12, 3:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell	3 hr
Jul 12, 7:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Brunswick, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway	3 hr
Jul 12, 7:53 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jul 12, 10:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	5 hr
Jul 12, 10:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, Sussex, City of Emporia	48 min
Jul 12, 11:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	5 hr
Jul 12, 11:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, Sussex	51 min
Jul 12, 11:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, Surry, Sussex	3 hr
Jul 12, 12:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, James City, Prince George, Southampton, Surry and 3 more	3 hr
Jul 12, 12:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Greensville, Southampton, Sussex	4 hr
Jul 12, 12:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, James City, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, York and 1 more	5 hr
Jul 12, 12:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	3 hr
Jul 12, 12:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Middlesex, York, City of Hampton and 2 more	5 hr
Jul 12, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	46 min
Jul 12, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		60 min
Jul 12, 1:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	5 hr
Jul 12, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin	49 min
Jul 12, 3:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia	6 hr
Jul 12, 3:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jul 12, 3:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	4 hr
Jul 12, 3:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Jul 12, 3:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	6 hr
Jul 12, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		71 min
Jul 12, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		55 min
Jul 12, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin	40 min
Jul 12, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City, Middlesex	44 min
Jul 12, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		74 min
Jul 12, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		59 min
Jul 12, 5:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Richmond	4 hr
Jul 12, 5:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Middlesex, York, City of Hampton and 2 more	3 hr
Jul 12, 6:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	3 hr
Jul 12, 6:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Jul 12, 6:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	3 hr
Jul 12, 7:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Henrico	115 min
Jul 12, 1:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates	42 min
Jul 12, 2:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Camden, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank	6 hr
Jul 12, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gates	40 min
Jul 12, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Northampton	51 min
Jul 12, 8:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	5 hr
Jul 12, 9:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	5 hr
Jul 12, 11:53 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico	4 hr
Jul 12, 1:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	3 hr
Jul 12, 1:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	3 hr
Jul 12, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Wicomico	46 min
Jul 12, 2:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Somerset, Wicomico	3 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.