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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Wakefield, VA

June 16, 2025Chowan County, Gates County, Perquimans County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2025, 6:30 PM EDT for Chowan County, Gates County, Perquimans 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: Jun 16, 2025, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Chowan County, NC, Gates County, NC, Perquimans County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 15, 7:17 PM EDT, 23 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:17 PM EDT, 23 hours 13 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
Jun 15, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Southampton, City of Franklin	47 min
Jun 15, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		59 min
Jun 16, 4:55 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	AKQ	Caroline	29 hr
Jun 16, 2:14 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	AKQ	Essex, Richmond	24 hr
Jun 16, 4:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Suffolk	118 min
Jun 15, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans	40 min
Jun 15, 9:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	44 min
Jun 15, 9:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	51 min
Jun 15, 10:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	4 hr
Jun 15, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	60 min
Jun 15, 11:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans	2 hr
Jun 16, 4:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Pasquotank	112 min
Jun 16, 4:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Pasquotank	3 hr
Jun 16, 6:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans	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.