Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1992, 2:27 AM EDT for Buckingham County, Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1992, 2:27 AM EDT (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1992, 5:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buckingham County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 KRIC 150627 FFWRIC VAC029-150930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA 227 AM EDT FRI MAY 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RICHMOND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA ...BUCKINGHAM COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INFORMATION INDICATES HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING OVER BUCKINGHAM COUNTY VIRGINIA. THE RAIN CONTINUES TO REDEVELOP ALONG WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT...RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF MORE THAN OF 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH hFLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. CHILLAG
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, May 15, 1:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
VAZ-018-150615-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA
115 AM EDT FRI MAY 15 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER BUCKINGHAM COUNTY
VIRGINIA...
AT 110 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN
AND NORTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF BUCKINGHAM. THE STORMS WERE SLOWLY
DRIFTING EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH.
BECAUSE OF THE VERY SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...FLOODING OF
STRETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS L-IKELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR STANDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
REPORT ANY FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ASK THEM TO RELAY
YOUR MESSAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
CHILLAGSpecial weather statement, May 15, 2:06 AM EDT, 21 minutes before
VAZ-018-150710-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA
205 AM EDT FRI MAY 15 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER BUCKINGHAM
COUNTY VIRGINIA...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM FOR THE COUNTIES OF
NELSON...CUMBERLAND AND BUCKINGHAM...
AT 200 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER BUCKINGHAM.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NOW OVER THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY. THE
STORMS WERE SLOWLY DRIFTING EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH.
BECAUSE OF THE VERY SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...FLOODING OF STREETS
AND LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STANDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
REPORT ANY FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW6 ENFORCEMENT AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR
MESSAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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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.