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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA

January 27, 1996Rockbridge County, City of Buena Vista, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 27, 1996, 3:26 AM EST for Rockbridge County, City of Buena Vista, Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 27, 1996, 3:26 AM EST (08:26 UTC)
Expired
Jan 27, 1996, 7:30 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties City of Buena Vista, VA, Rockbridge County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 64 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 479 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
479 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
699 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 270828
FFWRNK
VAC071-155-163-530-678-271230-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
326 AM EST SAT JAN 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 AM EST
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTYS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...GILES COUNTY...PULASKI COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA
 
   ...ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY
 
  AND THE INDEPENDENT CITIES OF
 
   ...BUENA VISTA...LEXINGTON
 
DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAGES INDICATE THAT BETWEEN /1.5/ AND
/2.0/ INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST 12 HOURS. IN ADDITION...MORE
HEAVY RAIN IS ON THE WAY. THIS WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO
OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS AND SOME ROADWAYS WILL BECOME FLOODED.
 
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<.
 
 
KANE/GILLEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 1:09 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKTazewell4 hr
Jan 27, 2:08 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKBland4 hr
Jan 27, 3:26 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKCity of Lexington4 hr
Jan 27, 3:26 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKGiles, Pulaski4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.