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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2000, 2:19 PM EDT for Franklin County, Patrick County, 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 28, 2000, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, VA, Patrick County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 281819 FFWRNK VAC067-141-282115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 219 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... NORTHERN PATRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT. * AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM WOOLWINE NORTH TO DILLONS MILL. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 515 PM EDT INCLUDE ALGOMA... ENDICOTT... CHARITY... FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR ALONG LITTLE CREEK...WHITE OAK CREEK...OTTER CREEK AND THE BLACKWATER RIVER. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. .END 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Jul 28, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 32 min |
| Jul 28, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Tazewell | 49 min |
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.