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WGUS41 KAKQ 031507
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1107 AM EDT THU OCT 3 2024
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD VA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN VIRGINIA...
APPOMATTOX RIVER AT MATTOAX AFFECTING POWHATAN, AMELIA AND
CHESTERFIELD COUNTIES.
FOR THE APPOMATTOX BASIN...INCLUDING MATTOAX...MINOR FLOODING IS
FORECAST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED THIS EVENING AT 1115 PM EDT.
VAC007-041-145-040315-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.FL.W.0051.241004T1434Z-241005T1526Z/
/MTXV2.1.ER.241004T1434Z.241005T0000Z.241005T0925Z.NO/
1107 AM EDT THU OCT 3 2024
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING TO LATE SATURDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...APPOMATTOX RIVER AT MATTOAX.
* WHEN...FROM FRIDAY MORNING TO LATE SATURDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS...AT 21.0 FEET, AGRICULTURAL AND PASTURE LAND FLOODED.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 10:30 AM EDT THURSDAY THE STAGE WAS 17.6 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 19.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE
LATE TOMORROW MORNING TO A CREST OF 21.7 FEET TOMORROW
EVENING. IT WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE EARLY SATURDAY
MORNING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 21.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
21.7 FEET ON 11/24/1952.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 3721 7776 3743 7802 3742 7814 3751 7812
3752 7791 3733 7767
JM
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