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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 23, 1995Pittsylvania County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1995, 12:56 AM EDT for Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1995, 12:56 AM EDT (04:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1995, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Pittsylvania County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRNK 230518
FFWRNK
VAC143-230700-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1256 AM EDT FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY
 
AT 1256 AM...FLASH FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN HURT AND NORTHEASTERN
PARTS OF PITTSYLVANIA...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF MOUNT AIRY. ACROSS THIS
AREA...ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1155 PM. ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE FLASH FLOODING THRU 3 AM.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD D~EATHS 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 ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

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.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 22, 8:58 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 8:58 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
855 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995

RECOMMENDATIONS...

NONE...

DISCUSSION...

NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT ANYTHING WITH FFW S...KFCX AT 0040Z INDCT SHWRS
AND TSTMS PERSIST ACRS CNTRL PORTIONS OF CWA. FFG IS LOW IN MANY
AREAS. SHWRS AND TSTMS SHD DIMINISH TNGT THEN FIRE UP AGAIN TOM
ALITTLE FURTHER NORTH. EXPT CLDY SKIES WITH SHWRS/TSTMS AND AREAS OF
FOG TNGT AND TOM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POS. LOWS IN 60S. MAXS MAINLY
LOWER AND MID 80S.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
920 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995

DATE/TIME        COUNTY/CITY           EVENT

910 PM           ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY     SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING
                                       OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHERN
                                       ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY INCLUDING
                                       THE CITY OF BUENA VISTA.
                                       SEVERAL VEHICLES HAVE BEEN
                                       WASHED AWAY...EVACUATIONS ARE
                                       UNDER WAY AND SHELTERS ARE IN
                                       THE PROCESS OF BEING OPENED.

MTE

Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
920 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995

DATE/TIME        COUNTY/CITY           EVENT

910 PM           ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY     SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING
                                       OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHERN
                                       ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY INCLUDING
                                       THE CITY OF BUENA VISTA.
                                       SEVERAL VEHICLES HAVE BEEN
                                       WASHED AWAY...EVACUATIONS ARE
                                       UNDER WAY AND SHELTERS ARE IN
                                       THE PROCESS OF BEING OPENED.

MTE

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 8:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford	3 hr
Jun 22, 9:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Rockbridge	3 hr
Jun 22, 9:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Campbell	3 hr
Jun 22, 10:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Rockbridge	2 hr
Jun 22, 11:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Bedford	3 hr
Jun 23, 12:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Campbell	3 hr
Jun 23, 12:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Rockbridge	3 hr
Jun 23, 2:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Campbell	2 hr
Jun 23, 5:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Campbell	4 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.