Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 1994, 3:19 AM EDT for Wilkes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1994, 3:19 AM EDT (07:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1994, 6:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilkes County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSO 170722 FFWGSO NCC193-171015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 319 AM EDT WED AUG 17 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ...WILKES COUNTY AT 315 AM EDT THE WIKLES COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT SMALL STREAMS WERE BEGINNING TO OVERFLOW IN THE VICINITY OF WILKESBORO AND NORTH WILKESBORO. ALSO...SCATTERED ROAD FLOODING WAS OCCURRING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. WITH RAIN CONTINUING HEAVILY AT TIMES FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT...CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE IN WILKES COUNTY...AND FLOODING WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO HCROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. SR &
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, Aug 17, 2:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
VAZ058-044-170815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 214 AM EDT WED AUG 17 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... AT 2 AM A BROAD AREA OF PRECIPITATION IS FALLING ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ARE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PITTSYLVANIA AND HALIFAX COUNTIES VIRGINIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. THE COMBINATION OF SOAKING RAINS YESTERDAY AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS THIS MORNING COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. PEOPLE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOODING OCCUR. MEADOWS NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 2:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
VAZ058-044-170815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 214 AM EDT WED AUG 17 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... AT 2 AM A BROAD AREA OF PRECIPITATION IS FALLING ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ARE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PITTSYLVANIA AND HALIFAX COUNTIES VIRGINIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. THE COMBINATION OF SOAKING RAINS YESTERDAY AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS THIS MORNING COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. PEOPLE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOODING OCCUR. MEADOWS NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 27 min |
| Aug 16, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Wilkes | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 16 min |
| Aug 16, 9:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alexander | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 12:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Iredell | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 12:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Iredell | 16 min |
| Aug 17, 1:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Iredell | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Wilkes | 3 hr |
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.