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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2000, 3:35 PM EDT for Botetourt County, Virginia. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2000, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Botetourt County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 011939 FFWRNK VAC023-012130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 335 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BOTETOURT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 332 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAGLE ROCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 530 PM EDT INCLUDE EAGLE ROCK... GLEN WILTON... AND GALA... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN SINKING CREEK AND MILL CREEK. <<CALL TO ACTION>>SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD... POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. .END 14 p
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 1:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Giles | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin, Roanoke | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in 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.