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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 5, 2000Monroe County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2000, 1:19 PM EDT for Monroe County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 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
Jul 5, 2000, 1:19 PM EDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 2000-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 249 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 
WGUS51 KRNK 051720
FFWRNK
WVC063-052015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
119 PM EDT WED JUL 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT.

* AT 119 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY...
  OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UNION...STATIONARY.

LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 415 PM EDT INCLUDE

   UNION...

SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
WARNED AREA. 

<<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED.

$$

HH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 12:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKSummers3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.