Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 1, 1997Rockbridge County, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1997, 6:20 PM EDT for Rockbridge County, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington, Virginia. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 1997, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

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

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 12:00Z, 10.3 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-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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KROA 012222
FFWRNK
VAC163-530-678-020015-

BULLETIN--EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
620 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG VA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA

   ...ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY

IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA THE INDEPENDENT CITY OF

   ...BUENA VISTA
   ...LEXINGTON
 
AT 619 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH ACROSS THE
ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR WAS ESTIMATING AROUND 2 INCHES OF
RAIN HAD FALLEN IN SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY.

SPOTTERS REPORT RUNOFF FLOODING ON ROUTE 251...4 MILES SOUTH OF
LEXINGTON. RUNOFF FLOODING REPORTED ON ROUTE 501 AT INTERSECTION
OF 501 AND 130 BEFORE GLASGOW. FLOODING REPORTED ON ROUTE 11 AT
NATURAL BRIDGE HOTEL.

ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD CAUSE CREEK AND STREAMS
TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

KK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 2:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Roanoke, City of Roanoke	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	City of Salem	3 hr
Jun 1, 3:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.