Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 12:20 AM EDT for Caswell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 12:20 AM EDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caswell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRNK 290421 FFWRNK NCC033-290615- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1220 AM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...CASWELL COUNTY AT 1220 PM EDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CASWELL COUNTY. UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WAS INDICATED FROM SOUTHEAST CASWELL COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF HIGHTOWER...THROUGH YANCEYVILLE AND INTO PELHAM IN THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE COUNTY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DESROSIERS
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, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 8:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 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, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 10:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 116 min |
| Jun 29, 12:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 61 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 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.