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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 3, 1995Rockingham County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 1995, 9:46 PM EDT for Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 1995, 9:46 PM EDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1995, 12:45 AM 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 00:00Z, 1.8 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: 1600 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRNK 040147
FFWRNK
NCC157-040445-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
946 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
 
AT 946 PM RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATED UP TO /2.5/ TWO AND ONE
HALF INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SINCE 845
PM. SOME OF THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN ROUTES 158 AND 29.  WITADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING TOWARD ROCKINGHAM MORE HEAVY RAIN IS
EXPECTED IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
 
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE TXHERE VEHICLES ONTO WATER COVERED ROADS AS
EVEN SHALLOW WATER CAN FLOAT AND CARRY AWAY A VEHICLE.
 
SPN

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 Jul 3, 8:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERIVCE BLACKSBURG VA
820 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995

SUGGESTIONS...

WBC...I KNOW WE TRY TO KEEP THIS TO 1ST PD FOR THE MOST PART...BUT
PLEASE HANG IN WITH ME FOR A MINUTE.  WUD RATHER SEE CLDY WITH PATCHY
L- RATHER THAN RAIN. ALSO ON TUE...EVEN THO POP IS ONLY 50
PERCENT...SAYING RAIN SEEMS RATHER WET AND INDICATIVE OF A STDY
PRECIP EVENT.  SINCE IT IS A HOLIDAY AND THERE IS SOME
UNCERTAINTY...DO YOU THINK PATCHY AM L- THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A TSTM FOR THE PDMONT?? IF THE FRONT
GETS THRU THE SRN PDMONT IT CUD BE PTLY SUNNY VERY WARM AND HUMID
WITH PM TRW.

CRW...NOT SURE ABOUT RW/TRW LATE TONIGHT...OTRW FCST LUKS GUD.

RDU...FCST LUKS GUD.

DISCUSSION...
21Z SFC ANAL INDCTS SOUPY AIR LOCATED ALNG EXTRME SRN PART OF NC/SC
STATELINE.  DWPTS N OF FRNT IN M60S WHILE SOUPY AIR HAS DWPTS IN
LM70S. NEAR AND AHD OF FRNT TRW'S HAVE BEEN FIRING UP MOSTLY ACRS NC
WITH ANOTHER BATCH WITH SHRTWV ACRS KY/TN.  FRNT WILL CONT SLO PRGRS
N DURING THE NIGHT WITH LIGHT ERLY'S AHD OF IT SLOWLY TURNING MORE
SERLY.  TRW'S TO DIE OUT WITH SETTING SUN OVR NC...BUT CUD STILL SEE
A FEW STRGLERS INTO EXTRME SW VA AND NW NC LATE AT NIGHT FROM TN/KY
CLUSTER.  WITH SAT PIX SHOING THIS BATH TURNING SE...THINK THEY SHUD
MISS MOST OF REST OF SE WV AND SW VA.

IN ANY EVENT LO CLDS TO STACK UP AGNST MTNS IN PDMONT OVR NIGHT AND
SOME PTCHY L- POSS TO DEVLP DURING PREDAWN...BUT TO BE LIGHT.

SPN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 7:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

NCZ005-006-040105-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
734 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995

AT 734 PM RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.  ONE LOCATED
ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF ANDERSON OR 2 MILES SOUTH OF CAMP SPRINGS IN
IN CASWELL COUNTY.  THE OTHER WAS LOCATED OVER 6 MILES SOUTH OF
REIDSVILLE IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.  BOTH STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAIN AS THEY DRIFTED SLOWLY TO THE EAST.  THESE STORMS MAY
ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS MAY RESULT
IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS.

SPN

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 7:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

NCZ005-006-040105-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
734 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995

AT 734 PM RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.  ONE LOCATED
ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF ANDERSON OR 2 MILES SOUTH OF CAMP SPRINGS IN
IN CASWELL COUNTY.  THE OTHER WAS LOCATED OVER 6 MILES SOUTH OF
REIDSVILLE IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.  BOTH STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAIN AS THEY DRIFTED SLOWLY TO THE EAST.  THESE STORMS MAY
ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS MAY RESULT
IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS.

SPN

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 8:49 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
849 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995

AT 848 PM RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST
NORTH CAROLINA.  THE STRONGEST WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF SUGAR GROVE
AND WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT TRACKED TO THE NORTHEAST AT
LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.  PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM FOR
THE HEAVY RAIN TO RESULT IN LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS...
POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW SPOTS.  THIS STORM MAY ALSO BE
ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL.

ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN WILKES
COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN STOKES...ROCKINGHAM AND CASWELL COUNTIES.
THESE STORMS ARE ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN AND CAN CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AS THEY TRACK
SLOWLY TO THE EAST.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.  MOTORISTS SHOULD BE
ALERT TO WATER ON ROADS.

SPN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 10:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Caswell	3 hr
Jul 3, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	63 min
Jul 3, 10:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Surry	3 hr

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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.