Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1987, 12:55 PM EDT for Bedford County, Virginia. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1987, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1987, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford 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 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 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
- 88 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 071655 FFWLYH VAC019-515-071800- FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 1255 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 2 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA...BEDFORD...AND THE CITY OF BEDFORD AT 1250 PM EDT RADAR AND SHERIFFS REPORTS INDICATED HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN BEDFORD COUNTY VIRGINIA. SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL CONTINUE TO FLOOD FOR THE NEXT HOUR UNTIL THE RAIN TAPERS OFF. PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. KGH
What 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, Sep 7, 8:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA
825 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1987
...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA..
AT 8 AM EDT RADAR INDICATED HEAVY THUNDESTORMS OVER NORTHERN HENRY
AND SOUTHERN FRANKLIN IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT
25 MPH.
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING.
CG
[Special weather statement, Sep 7, 10:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 1000 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1987 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 10 AM EDT RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDESTORMS OVER NORTHWESTERN HENRY...NORTHERN FRANKLIN AND WESTERN BEDFORD COUTNIES MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 25 MPH. WHILE THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS THE COVERAGE OF THE HEAVY STORMS HAD DECREASED DURING THE PAST HOUR AS THEY MOVED OVER THE MOUNTAINS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS REPORTED FROM THE ROCKY MOUNT AREA: 1.6 TO 2.25 INCHES FROM 7AM TO 915 AM AND 4.5 TO 5 INCHES OVERALL SINCE SATURDAY. FORTUNATELY WITH THE LONG DRY SPELL BEFORE THESE RAI1NS ONLY POSSIBLE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME WHERE THE VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURING. $$JJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bedford | 2 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.