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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 12, 2025Prince Edward County, Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2025, 5:27 PM EDT for Prince Edward County, Virginia. 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 12, 2025, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2025, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Prince Edward County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 1110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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 12, 3:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 3:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 3:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:43 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:47 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:49 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:50 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 5:08 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 5:27 PM EDT, 0 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 12, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Richmond	26 min
Jul 12, 12:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jul 12, 1:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	City of Chesapeake	119 min
Jul 12, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Suffolk	50 min
Jul 12, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico	48 min
Jul 12, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	38 min
Jul 12, 1:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, Powhatan, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jul 12, 1:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	Chesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jul 12, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Suffolk	43 min
Jul 12, 2:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent	3 hr
Jul 12, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	35 min
Jul 12, 2:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Chesterfield, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg	3 hr
Jul 12, 2:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Caroline, King and Queen, King William	3 hr
Jul 12, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Caroline	43 min
Jul 12, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince George, City of Hopewell	46 min
Jul 12, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Fluvanna	43 min
Jul 12, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Charles City, New Kent	41 min
Jul 12, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George	44 min
Jul 12, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King and Queen	51 min
Jul 12, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Essex	50 min
Jul 12, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Charles City, New Kent	47 min
Jul 12, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Sussex	50 min
Jul 12, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	James City	47 min
Jul 12, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex	43 min
Jul 12, 3:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth	66 min
Jul 12, 3:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Charles City, James City, King and Queen, King William, New Kent	2 hr
Jul 12, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Greensville, City of Emporia	46 min
Jul 12, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince Edward	44 min
Jul 12, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Pasquotank	51 min
Jul 12, 2:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank	110 min
Jul 12, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Perquimans	41 min
Jul 12, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Perquimans	47 min
Jul 12, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans	45 min
Jul 12, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie	41 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.