Flash Flood Warning
NWS Wakefield VA ยท US
Details
Flash Flood Warning Issued September 22 At 2:23PM EDT Until September 22 At 5:30PM EDT By NWS Wakefield VA
- Event
- Flash Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
FFWAKQ The National Weather Service in Wakefield has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... The Northwestern City of Chesapeake in southeastern Virginia... The Southwestern City of Norfolk in southeastern Virginia... The City of Portsmouth in southeastern Virginia... The Northeastern City of Suffolk in southeastern Virginia... * Until 530 PM EDT. * At 223 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.5 and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 2 to 4 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
Hazard
Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Churchland, Deep Creek, Downtown Portsmouth, Old Dominion University, Downtown Norfolk, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Bowers Hill, Western Branch, Cradock, Driver, Ghent, Deanes, Huntersville, South Norfolk, Wilroy and Portlock.
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. Please report flooding by posting to the NWS Wakefield Facebook page, or using X @NWSWAKEFIELDVA.
Affected areas
- City of Chesapeake, VA
- City of Norfolk, VA
- City of Portsmouth, VA
- City of Suffolk, VA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Wakefield VA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~26s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M355QGG09ZSVRX6EKFQRQKP1
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.b6d00420379a0cd5fd434d60bd6e885aa71eb24f.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Wakefield VA
- AWIPS ID
- CAPAKQ
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.586
- WMO heading
- XOUS51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FFW |
| NationalWeatherService | FFW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFWAKQ |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS51 KAKQ 221823 |
| flashFloodDetection | RADAR INDICATED |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KAKQ.FF.W.0099.260922T1823Z-260922T2130Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- City of Chesapeake, VA
- City of Norfolk, VA
- City of Portsmouth, VA
- City of Suffolk, VA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 051550 |
| SAME | 051710 |
| SAME | 051740 |
| SAME | 051800 |
| UGC | VAC550 |
| UGC | VAC710 |
| UGC | VAC740 |
| UGC | VAC800 |
- Polygons
- 36.88,-76.49 36.93,-76.46 36.93,-76.45 36.92,-76.41 36.93,-76.4 36.91,-76.33 36.83,-76.25 36.69,-76.33 36.66,-76.46 36.75,-76.56 36.88,-76.49