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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA

April 19, 1991Alleghany County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 19, 1991, 10:40 AM EDT for Alleghany County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 1991, 10:40 AM EDT (14:40 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 1991, 1:40 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Alleghany County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 345 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1991-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1991-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 9:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKAlexander, Wilkes4 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.