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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2024, 5:46 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Maryland. 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
- Jul 13, 2024, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2024, 8:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dorchester County, MD, Wicomico County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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.
- 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
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, 22 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 7:43 PM EDT, 22 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 80 min |
| Jul 13, 2:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Accomack | 97 min |
| Jul 13, 4:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 114 min |
| Jul 13, 7:51 PM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | AKQ | 14 hr | |
| Jul 13, 5:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dorchester, Wicomico | 3 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.