Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1995, 10:54 PM EDT for Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1995, 10:54 PM EDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 1:00 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, 2.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 28, 8:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 8:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERIVCE BLACKSBURG VA 827 PM EDT WED JUN 28 199 RECOMMENDATIONS... WBC...WE FEEL STRONGLY THAT THE FFA SHD BE XTNDED MIDNIGHT TIL THE ERLY MORG FCST PKG. LWR POPS TO 60 PCNT. CRW...KEEP FFA UP AND XTND IT WWD TO SMYTH AND TAZEWELL CNTYS. LWR POPS TO HIGH CHC. RDU...KEEP FFA UP OTRW NO CHGS. DISCUSSION... TSTMS W/ VRY HVY RN CONT IN EARNEST FM ALLEGHANY VA ACRS ROA/BED CNTY LINE TO SRN PIED TO NC FOOTHILLS. RAFL RATES CONT IN 1 TO 3 INCH PER HOUR RANGE. FORCG EVIDENT ON GRIDDS PROGGED TO SLACKEN TNT...BUT BNDRY LYR WINDS STILL FCST TO HAVE A STG UPSLOPE COMPONENT. AFT LAST NIGHT IN ROCKBRIDGE CTY...THINK WE NEED TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION AND XPCT THAT SM TSTMS MAY LINGER INTO OVNT PD AND CD CAUSE HVY RAIN AND PSBLY FLASH FLDG. ALSO...TSTMS BCMG MORE WIDESPREAD ACRS SMYTH/TAZEWELL CTY AREA. SMYTH HAS RECEIVED A CPL GOOD DOSES OF RAFL OVR PAST DAY AND WE MAY WELL HAVE TO GO W/ FFW LATER FOR THIS AREA. DESROSIERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bedford | 75 min |
| Jun 28, 10:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin | 85 min |
| Jun 28, 11:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 69 min |
| Jun 29, 1:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 2 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.