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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2000, 11:43 PM EDT for Buchanan 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 11:43 PM EDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 2:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 2748 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 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 100345 FFWRNK VAC027-100645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV ISSUED BY BLACKSBURG VA 1143 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BUCHANAN COUNTY IN VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 245 AM EDT. * AT 1143 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER ALL OF BUCHANAN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 245 AM EDT INCLUDE VANSANT... GRUNDY... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM 8THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. .END 09
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, City of Covington | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 10:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Salem | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Roanoke | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 11:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 11:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 11:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 11:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 12:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 12:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, City of Galax | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 12:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 40 min |
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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.