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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 2026, 7:10 PM EDT for Greensville County, Southampton County, City of Emporia, Virginia; Northampton County, North Carolina. 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
- Sep 21, 2026, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2026, 9:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Northampton County, NC, City of Emporia, VA, Greensville County, VA, Southampton County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 1:50 AM EDT | Gale Watch | AKQ | 24 hr | |
| Sep 21, 1:50 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 7 days | |
| Sep 21, 2:22 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | AKQ | Accomack, Charles City, Essex, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City and 24 more | 25 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:00 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 6 days |
| Sep 21, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Greensville, City of Emporia | 23 min |
| Sep 21, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, City of Emporia | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 3:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Hertford | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Northampton | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 6:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Bertie | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 3 hr |
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.