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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2000, 7:10 PM EDT for Caswell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 27, 2000, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caswell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRNK 272313 FFWRNK NCC033-280115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 710 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CASWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 915 PM EDT. * AT 710 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A PERSISTENT AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CASWELL COUNTY...NEAR ANDERSON. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 915 PM EDT INCLUDE JERICHO... ANDERSON... PROSPECT HILL... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG HYCO AND TOMS CREEKS. <<CALL TO ACTION>>SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD... POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. $$ LAT...LON 3626 7952 3625 7917 3653 7916 3642 7931 PEM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 1:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.