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Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 15, 20255 counties in Virginia; Northampton County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia; Northampton County, North Carolina. 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 15, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2025, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Northampton County, NC, Brunswick County, VA, City of Emporia, VA, Greensville County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Sussex County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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 15, 1:45 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 1:45 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 4:36 AM EDT, 9 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 15, 8:23 AM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 8:53 AM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 9:50 AM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 10:21 AM EDT, 4 hours before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 11:07 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:01 PM EDT, 20 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 14, 8:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	3 hr
Jul 14, 8:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia	49 min
Jul 14, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline, Louisa	29 min
Jul 14, 8:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Louisa	3 hr
Jul 14, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield	52 min
Jul 14, 9:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Essex, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland	3 hr
Jul 14, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	39 min
Jul 14, 9:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	51 min
Jul 14, 9:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	3 hr
Jul 14, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King William	30 min
Jul 14, 10:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 14, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	King and Queen, King William, New Kent	24 min
Jul 14, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, Surry	52 min
Jul 14, 10:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Charles City, Essex, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King and Queen and 5 more	2 hr
Jul 14, 10:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	3 hr
Jul 14, 10:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		85 min
Jul 14, 11:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	10 hr
Jul 14, 11:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Dinwiddie, Prince George	9 hr
Jul 15, 12:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Greensville, Prince George, Surry, Sussex, City of Emporia	3 hr
Jul 15, 1:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	5 hr
Jul 15, 2:39 AM EDT	Flood Watch	AKQ	Accomack, Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton and 10 more	19 hr
Jul 15, 3:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:19 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield	2 hr
Jul 15, 3:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Petersburg	5 hr
Jul 15, 5:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	4 hr
Jul 15, 5:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	3 hr
Jul 15, 8:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	23 hr
Jul 15, 8:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	23 hr
Jul 15, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	44 min
Jul 15, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	37 min
Jul 15, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Franklin	28 min
Jul 15, 3:06 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Prince Edward	24 hr
Jul 15, 3:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk	2 hr
Jul 15, 3:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Essex, Richmond	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Isle of Wight, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Lunenburg, Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jul 15, 4:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Richmond, Westmoreland	2 hr
Jul 15, 4:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway	2 hr
Jul 15, 5:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico	107 min
Jul 15, 5:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Gloucester, James City, Surry, York, City of Hampton and 3 more	3 hr
Jul 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, King and Queen, King William	3 hr
Jul 15, 6:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Powhatan	118 min
Jul 15, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	51 min
Jul 15, 6:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach	105 min
Jul 15, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	47 min
Jul 15, 6:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Hertford, Northampton	3 hr
Jul 15, 12:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Somerset	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.