Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 91, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT for Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- 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, 10.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 292230 FFWRNK NCC157-292330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 629 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY... JUST WEST OF MIDWAY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR WAS ESTIMATING BETWEEN /2.0/ TO /2.5/ INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR. 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. VEHICfLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE 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 29, 2:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION ............CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERIVCE BLACKSBURG VA 256 PM EDT THU JUN 29 199 > DISCUSSION... ALOFT...REMNANTS OF UA LOW LIFTING OUT AND WEAKENING AS FLOW AT H5 BECOMES MORE ZONAL INTO END OF PD. THIS AS SECOND LOW AT H5 PUSHES E THRU PD. THE GOOD NEWS...H5 FLOW MORE WESTERLY...THE BAD NEWS...NGM SUGGEST STILL DIFFLUENCE ALFT WITH RELATIVELY WEAK H5 FLOW THRU PD. A LOOK AT RFS PCGRIDDS...ACTUALLY HINTS AT A TAD BIT OF A RESTPIT IN THE WAY OF A LIT LOWER PW/S AND A RELAXATION OF THE EVER-PRESENT THETA-E AXIS. ALSO...850 TD/S AT GSO DOWN 2C FROM YESTERDAY. NGM WUD SUGGEST THAT CHUNK OF SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR (IN THE WAY OF A LIT LOWER PW/S) TRIES TO PUSH E )AT LEAST ACROSS S VA0..AS PW AXIS RECEEDS S LATER OVERNIGHT. LIKEWISE...THETA-E AXIS RELAXES A BIT OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER...IN ADVANCE OF MIDWEST FRONT...PW/S BULGE BACK UP BY 36 HRS AS WELL AS THETA-E MAX. THE LOW LEVEL MSTR CONV...WHICH DID AN EXCELLENT JOB YESTRDAY...ALSO SHWS DIMINISHING BY LATE TNGT. BUT...INCREASE QUITE WELL BY 36 HR. THINKING/HOPE/WISH? IS THAT RW/TRW WUD BE SCT-WDLY SCT FOR THE REMAINDER OF AFT AND OVERNIGHT.. THEN IT/LL PROB ONCE AGAIN INCREASE BY LATER FRI. WBC WITH FFA IN EFFECT OK WITH US TO LEAVE IN UNTIL EVE PACKAGE AND REEVALUTE. CAN DECIDE TO DROP TIL LATER TOMORROW WITH FRESH WATCH OR KEEP IT GOING IF OH VLY CONV MAKES IT THIS FAR E. CRW...WITHOUT FFA...NOT SURE...TRW WIDELY SCT ATTM ACRS EXT SW VA...BUT THOSE THAT ARE FORMING IN THE SUN ARE PUTTING DOWN SOME RESPECTABLE AMOUNTS. GIVE ME ANOTHER CALL. RDU...JUST SAW YOUR SFD....AGREE LUKS GUD. HEY...WHAT/S THAT OUT IN THE ATLANTIC...PUSHING TOWARD CHS. LET/S "NOT" THINK TROPICAL AT THIS TIME. PLEASE..!!! KANE
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, 12:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell | 115 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 |
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.