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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 3, 1997Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 3, 1997, 10:43 AM EST for Greenbrier County, West 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
Mar 3, 1997, 10:43 AM EST (15:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 1997, 2:45 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 12:00Z on 1997-03-03Temperature 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 km15 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 12:00Z on 1997-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 253 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
578 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KROA 031545
FFWRNK
WVC025-031945-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1043 AM EST MON MAR 3 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG VA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA

   ...GREENBRIER COUNTY
 
AT 1043 AM COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED SMALL STREAMS NEAR BANKFULL
AND ROUTE 12 WAS CLOSED JUST WEST OF ALDERVSON DUE TO HIGH WATER.
HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA UNTIL 1130 AM
WITH ANOTHER INCH OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE.

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

&
MV/MG

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1997Every 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.