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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 13, 2024Accomack County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2024, 4:36 PM EDT for Accomack County, Virginia. It was in force for 114 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 13, 2024, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2024, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Accomack County, VA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 36 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 379 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 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, 7:43 PM EDT, 20 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 7:43 PM EDT, 20 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 6:58 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQCharles City, Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William and 2 more3 hr
Jul 13, 8:46 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQEssex, King and Queen, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond and 1 more3 hr
Jul 13, 12:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQCity of Virginia Beach80 min
Jul 13, 2:59 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQAccomack97 min
Jul 13, 7:51 PM EDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryAKQ14 hr
Jul 13, 5:09 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQDorchester, Wicomico3 hr
Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQDorchester, Wicomico3 hr

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.