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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 11, 1990, 3:01 AM EDT for Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 1990, 3:01 AM EDT (07:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1990, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guilford County, NC
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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 350 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
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 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 KGSO 110701
FFWGSO
NCC081-111000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
301 AM EDT THU OCT 11 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
GUILFORD
AT 255 AM FLOODING WAS BEING REPORTED IN GREENSBORO ALONG
BUFFALO CREEK. WATER IS ALREADY UP TO A FEW HOUSES NEAR LATHAM
PARK. SOME APARTMENTS NEAR LATHAM PARK ARE ALSO BEING EVACUATED
SO THE RESIDENTS DO NOT BECOME TRAPPED BY THE RISING WATERS.
4.30 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN MEASURED AT THE PIEDMONT TRIAD
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS OF 2AM..3.54 INCHES FELL BETWEEN 8PM
WEDNESDAY AND 2 AM THIS MORNING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
REMEMBER..MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOOD WATERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY
AND TAKE SHELTER. ASK YOU LOCAL SHERIFF OR POLICE TO RELAY YOUR
S
EVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
RBNWhat 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, Oct 10, 11:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
VAZ008-009-013-014- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 1100 PM EDT WED OCT 10 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 NOON THURSDAY FOR MOST OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND PORTION OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY THE COUNTIES ARE CRAIG BOTETOURT ROANOKE FRANKLIN PATRICK HENRY BEDFORD AMHERST CAMPBELL PITTSYLVANIA HALIFAX APPOMATTOX AND CHARLOTTE. ALSO THE CITIES OF ROANOKE SALEM AND LYNCHBURG. A SURGE OF TROPICL MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM KLAUS IS SPREADING PERIODS OF RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. ONE TO ONE AND A QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN SEVERAL AREAS WITH ONE AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES IN PORTIONS OF PATRICK HENRY CRROLL COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE INDICATES ABOUT 4 INCHES OF RAIN IS NEEEDED TO BEGIN FLASH FLOODING SOME SMALL STREAM AND UBAN FLOODING COULD OCCUR WITH LESSER AMOUNTS WHERE THERE IS POOR DRAINAGE. REMEMBER DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS...IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM OR CREEK BE ALERT FOR RAPID RISES IN WATER LEVELS. END/CE
Special weather statement, Oct 10, 11:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
VAZ008-009-013-014-111000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 1100 PM EDT WED OCT 10 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 NOON THURSDAY FOR MOST OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND PORTION OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY THE COUNTIES ARE CRAIG BOTETOURT ROANOKE FRANKLIN PATRICK HENRY BEDFORD AMHERST CAMPBELL PITTSYLVANIA HALIFAX APPOMATTOX AND CHARLOTTE. ALSO THE CITIES OF ROANOKE SALEM AND LYNCHBURG. A SURGE OF TROPICL MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM KLAUS IS SPREADING PERIODS OF RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. ONE TO ONE AND A QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN SEVERAL AREAS WITH ONE AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES IN PORTIONS OF PATRICK HENRY CRROLL COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE INDICATES ABOUT 4 INCHES OF RAIN IS NEEEDED TO BEGIN FLASH FLOODING SOME SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING COULD OCCUR WITH LESSER AMOUNTS WHERE T?HERE IS POOR DRAINAGE. REMEMBER DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS...IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM OR CREEK BE ALERT FOR RAPID RISES IN WATER LEVELS. END/CE
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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.