Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 22, 1990, 7:35 PM EDT for Franklin County, Henry County, Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 1990, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 1990, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, VA, Henry 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 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 KROA 222340 RRA FFWROA VAC067-089-230330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 735 PM EDT MON OCT 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROANOKE VA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...HENRY COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICES IN HENRY AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES ARE REPORTING SMALL STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, Oct 22, 4:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
VAZ008-009-222000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYHCHBURG VA 430 PM EDT MON OCT 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR THE VIRGINIA COUNTIES OF AMHERST ...APPOMATTOX...BEDFORD...CAMPBELL AND THE INDEPENDENT CITIES OF BEDFORD AND LYNCHBURG. WIDESPREAD RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL VIRGINIA TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBLY OF FLOODING. IF YOUG LIVE NEAR A CREEK OR STREAM BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MEADOWS
Special weather statement, Oct 22, 6:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
VAZ008-009-222230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYHCHBURG VA 630 PM EDT MON OCT 22 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT TUESDAY FOR..APPOMATTOX...BEDFORD...CAMPBELL AND THE INDEPENDENT CITIES OF BEDFORD AND LYNCHBURG. RADARD INDICATES RATHER HEAVY RAIN OVER MOST OF BEDFORD COUNTY AND IN THE WESTERN HALF OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY AT THIS HOUR. PERSONS IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FL OODING. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A CREEK OR STREAM BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. HUDGINS
Nearby
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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.