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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 10, 1995Rockingham County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1995, 7:50 PM EDT for Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 1995, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1995, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Rockingham County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRNK 102347
FFWRNK
NCC157-110245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
750 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
 
AT 750 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS
EXPECTED THROUGH LATE EVENING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDON\ED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
DESROSIERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	62 min
Jun 10, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	45 min
Jun 10, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alexander	65 min
Jun 10, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Iredell	56 min
Jun 10, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rowan	66 min
Jun 10, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Iredell	26 min

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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.