Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2000, 3:55 PM EDT for Alleghany County, Virginia; Greenbrier 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 28, 2000, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alleghany County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 281956 FFWRNK VAC005-WVC025-282245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 355 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN ALLEGHANY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... EASTERN GREENBRIER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 645 PM EDT. * AT 353 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN GREENBRIER AND WESTERN ALLEGHANY COUNTIES. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 645 PM EDT INCLUDE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS... ALVON... NEOLA... ALLEGHANY... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG...ANTHONY CREEK...HOWARDS CREEK...MEADOW CREEK AND JERRYS RUN. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. FOR YOUR SAFETY...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, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin, Patrick | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd, Montgomery | 39 min |
| 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 |
| Jul 28, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Summers | 34 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2000Flash 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.