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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 21, 20266 counties in Virginia

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2026, 3:10 PM EDT for 6 counties in 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 21, 2026, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2026, 6:02 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Caroline County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Louisa County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 941 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 21, 2:56 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:56 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 4:01 AM EDT, 11 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 21, 11:17 AM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:22 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 2:49 PM EDT, 21 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 21, 6:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	City of Virginia Beach	37 min
Jul 21, 10:42 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		63 min
Jul 21, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Louisa	38 min
Jul 21, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, Louisa	46 min
Jul 21, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Fluvanna	23 min
Jul 21, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland	38 min
Jul 21, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Goochland, Hanover, Louisa	33 min
Jul 21, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Hanover, King William	48 min
Jul 21, 3:02 PM EDT	Flood Watch	AKQ	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 45 more	54 hr
Jul 21, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		84 min
Jul 21, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Hanover, King William	51 min
Jul 21, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Caroline, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen and 3 more	44 min
Jul 21, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Powhatan	38 min
Jul 21, 4:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond	3 hr
Jul 21, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Amelia, Cumberland	48 min
Jul 21, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	King William, New Kent	39 min
Jul 21, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		58 min
Jul 21, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Accomack	67 min
Jul 21, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Henrico, King and Queen, King William, New Kent, City of Richmond	40 min
Jul 21, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg	53 min
Jul 21, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Amelia, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex, City of Colonial Heights and 2 more	34 min
Jul 21, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		87 min
Jul 21, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Gloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland	50 min
Jul 21, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Prince George, Surry, City of Williamsburg	52 min
Jul 21, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	AKQ		47 min
Jul 21, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Lancaster, Northumberland	31 min
Jul 21, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Perquimans	45 min
Jul 21, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans	41 min
Jul 21, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Somerset	38 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.