Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2000, 12:35 PM EDT for Surry County, Wilkes County, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 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 3, 2000, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 031636 FFWRNK NCC171-193-197-032030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1235 PM EDT SUN SEP 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN YADKIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... EASTERN WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... SOUTHWESTERN SURRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 1235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER EASTERN WILKES COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN SURRY COUNTY...AND NORTHWESTERN YADKIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN PER HOUR. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING THROUGH 430 PM EDT INCLUDE JONESVILLE... ELKIN... PLEASANT HILL... LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT CREEKS AND STREAMS JUST BEGINNING TO FLOOD BETWEEN ELKIN AND PLEASANT HILL. RUNOFF FROM ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL AGGRAVATE ONGOING FLOODING AND TRIGGER ADDITIONAL FLOODING. IN ADDITION...FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT EASTERN WILKES...NORTHWESTERN YADKIN...AND SOUTHWESTERN SURRY COUNTIES. STREET FLOODING AND CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED...INCLUDING ALONG ROUTE 21. <<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 08
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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.