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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2026, 11:10 PM EDT for Southampton County, Virginia; Gates County, Hertford County, 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 7, 2026, 11:10 PM EDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2026, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Gates County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Southampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1526 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 72 min | |
| Jul 7, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 8:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | AKQ | 83 min | |
| Jul 7, 8:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry | 113 min |
| Jul 7, 9:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 9:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 10:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk | 108 min |
| Jul 7, 11:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Lancaster, Northumberland | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Caroline, Essex | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:56 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 2:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:17 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Essex, Lancaster, Middlesex, Richmond | 118 min |
| Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Essex, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince Edward | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 3:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Bertie | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.