Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1995, 12:56 PM EDT for Henry County, Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRNK 021658 FFWRNK VAC089-022000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1256 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE 2.0 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF AXTON TO 5 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF AXTON. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA BETWEEN 100 PM AND 200 PM AND RESULT IN ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. 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 CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE4 RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. JJ/ME
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 10:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bland, Giles | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.