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River Flood Warning 39, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this river flood warning at Aug 9, 2024, 6:23 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, Henrico County, City of Richmond, Virginia. It took effect at Aug 10, 2024, 12:48 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2024, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 10, 2024, 12:48 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2024, 4:10 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Chesterfield County, VA, City of Richmond, VA, Henrico County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point James River (VA) at Richmond-Westham (RMDV2). The gauge peaked at 11.31 ft at Aug 10, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT.
- Action stage
- 9 ft
- Minor stage
- 12 ft
- Moderate stage
- 15 ft
- Major stage
- 22 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02037500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Aug 9, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 8, 9:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Prince Edward | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Powhatan | 10 min |
| Aug 8, 11:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 9 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:48 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Cumberland, Prince Edward | 49 hr |
| Aug 9, 12:03 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 8 hr |
| Aug 9, 1:57 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Prince Edward | 8 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 4:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 5:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 21 min |
| Aug 9, 6:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 6:39 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 40 min | |
| Aug 9, 12:20 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 18 hr | |
| Aug 9, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Essex, Richmond | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 7:02 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 15 hr | |
| Aug 8, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 8:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 16 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.