Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 92, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 8:28 PM EDT for Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- 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, 0.5 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
- 717 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 KROA 300039 COR FFWRNK VAC143-300130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 828 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA ...CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY. POLICE IN CHATHAM REPORT HEAVY RAIN AND MORE ROADS CLOSED. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN /2.5/ TO /3.0/ INCHES HAVE FALLEN SINCE LATE AFTERNOON. 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 ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. CORRECTED TO INCLUDE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY &
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, 5 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 29 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 29, 8:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockbridge | 3 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.