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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 23, 1993Wythe County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 23, 1993, 8:30 PM EST for Wythe County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 1993, 8:30 PM EST (01:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 1993, 10:30 PM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Wythe County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 286 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
286 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
405 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 8:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKSurry3 hr
Mar 23, 9:12 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKIredell2 hr
Mar 24, 12:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKWilkes3 hr
Mar 24, 3:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKIredell, Rowan4 hr
Mar 23, 9:55 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKCity of Martinsville3 hr
Mar 23, 11:02 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKRoanoke118 min

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.