Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 28, 1987, 9:00 PM EST for Halifax County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 1987, 9:00 PM EST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 1987, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Halifax County, VA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 537 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 628 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLYH 010216 RRA
FFWLYH
VAC083-280400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA
900 PM EST SAT FEB 28 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
VIRIGINIA...HALIFAX
AT 900 PM EST..PUBLIC REPORTS INDICATE THAT STREAMS ARE OVER
FLOWING THEIR BANKS IN THE EXTREME SOUTHERN POTION OF HALIFAX COUNTY
NEAR THE HYCO RIVER. SEVERAL STATE ROADS ARE PARTIALLY UNDER WATER.
ADDITIONAL RAINS TONIGHT WILL CONTINUE THE PROBLEMS
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADWAYS UNDERWATER AND PERSONS
NEAR STREAMS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RISING
WATERS.
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HUDGINSWhat 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 28, 3:16 PM EST, 5 hours 44 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 315 PM EST SUN FEB 28 1987 ...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... THE FLOOD WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BATH...ALLEGHENY...BOTETOURT ...ROANOKE...FRANKLIN...PATRICK AND ALL COUNTIES TO THE WEST. AT THIS TIME RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS INDICATES THAT LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN UP TO THIS TIME HAS BEEN IN THE TIER OF COUNTIES THAT BORDER NORTH CAROLINA. PATRICK...CARROLL AND GRAYSON COUNTIES HAVE RECIEVED FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES IN THE PAST 6 HOURS. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECIEVED YET...BUT SOME SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE REPORTED TO BE NEAR BANKFULL. THE GREATEST THREAT IS YET TO COME. THE TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED TO RISE LATER TONIGHT AND MORE OF THE RAIN TRAPPED IN THE SNOW COVER WILL RUN OFF. ADDITIONALLY THERE COULD BE SOME SCATTERED HEAVY SHOWER ACTIVITY LATER TONIGHT. MOTORISTS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH ANY STANDING OR RUNNING WATER ON THE ROADS. PEOPLE LIVING IN ANY FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD TAKE NECESSAvRY PRECAUTIONS TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THIER PROPERTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER REPORTS. ANY FLOODING SHOULD BE REPORTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. JJ
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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.