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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 1, 20255 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2025, 9:13 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 2 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 1, 2025, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2025, 11:17 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Amelia County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -44 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 1, 8:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 8:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 8:50 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:18 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:57 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 8:59 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 9:02 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 9:06 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 9:07 PM EDT, 6 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 1, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	50 min
Jul 1, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia	29 min
Jul 1, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Cumberland	27 min
Jul 1, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Powhatan	24 min
Jul 1, 8:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King William and 2 more	3 hr
Jul 1, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland, Nottoway, Prince Edward	52 min
Jul 1, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Essex, Goochland and 10 more	61 min
Jul 1, 8:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Nottoway	48 min
Jul 1, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Nottoway	38 min
Jul 1, 9:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Colonial Heights	53 min
Jul 1, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Nottoway	52 min
Jul 1, 10:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, Nottoway, City of Colonial Heights	3 hr
Jul 1, 10:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna, Goochland	44 min
Jul 1, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Brunswick	50 min
Jul 1, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, Prince George, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	35 min
Jul 1, 10:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Charles City, Prince George, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	3 hr
Jul 1, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dinwiddie, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	27 min
Jul 1, 11:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	39 min
Jul 2, 3:20 AM EDT	Flood Watch	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Virginia Beach	12 hr
Jul 2, 6:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Fluvanna, Louisa	3 hr
Jul 2, 10:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	112 min
Jul 2, 11:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	5 hr
Jul 2, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	66 min
Jul 2, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		95 min
Jul 2, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		2 hr
Jul 2, 4:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia	3 hr
Jul 2, 5:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Norfolk	103 min
Jul 2, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Currituck	53 min
Jul 2, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Currituck	17 min
Jul 2, 3:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Bertie	3 hr
Jul 2, 3:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan	3 hr
Jul 2, 4:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Currituck	4 hr
Jul 1, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico	41 min
Jul 1, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester	40 min

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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.