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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Blacksburg, VA

August 2, 2000Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2000, 4:22 PM EDT for 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
Aug 2, 2000, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 2000-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 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 2000-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 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
82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 022026
FFWRNK
WVC025-022315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
422 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT.

* AT 417 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OVER GREENBRIER
  COUNTY.

LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 715 PM EDT INCLUDE

MARFRANCE...
QUINWOOD...
CRICHTON...
LESLIE...
AND BELLBURN. 

THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CAUSING FLASH FLOODING ON MEADOW CREEK NEAR 
QUINWOOD AND ALONG HIGHWAY 20.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY 
FLOOD...
POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.

.END
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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.