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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2000, 4:49 PM EDT for Campbell County, City of Lynchburg, 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Campbell County, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 022048 FFWRNK VAC031-680-022345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 449 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CAMPBELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA... LYNCHBURG IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 745 PM EDT. * AT 449 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL COVERING MUCH OF CAMPBELL COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING THROUGH 745 PM EDT INCLUDE GLADYS... RUSTBURG... LYNCHBURG... <<CALL TO AxCTION>>A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. .END 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 1:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bedford, Botetourt | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Amherst, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Floyd | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bath | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.