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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2026, 5:38 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Goochland County, Powhatan County, 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
- Aug 3, 2026, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2026, 7:52 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cumberland County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Powhatan County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:05 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 24 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Prince Edward | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 5:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Prince Edward | 3 hr |
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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.