Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 17, 2000, 9:04 PM EDT for 10 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 116 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
- Apr 17, 2000, 9:04 PM EDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Roanoke County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 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 180116 COR FFWRNK VAC035-063-067-089-121-141-161-690-770-775-180300- FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 905 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS EXTENDED THE * FLOOD WARNING FOR FOR SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... ROANOKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... ROANOKE CITY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... SALEM IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... CARROLL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... PATRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA... MARTINSVILLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. * AT 900 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT SOME STREAM FLOODING ACROSS THESE COUNTIES AND INDEPENDENT CITIES. IN ROANOKE COUNTY...TINKER CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS AND WITHIN 12 INCHES OF WISE AVENUE. IN FRANKLIN COUNTY...SCHOOL BOARD ROAD WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. IN CARROLL COUNTY...SNAKE CREEK BRIDGE WAS CLOSED ON ROUTE 58 DUE TO FLOODING. IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY...MCCOY ROAD WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. IN PATRICK COUNTY...2 MILES EAST OF STUART...SPOON CREEK WAS FLOODED AND WAS OVER PARTS OF ROUTE 58. AT 9:00 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THESE COUNTIES UNTIL 10:0.0 PM. THIS ADDITIONAL RUNOFF WILL AGGRAVATE THE ONGOING FLOODING. FOR YOUR SAFETY...BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. $$ PEM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 49 min |
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.