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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2000, 1:25 PM EDT for Carroll County, City of Galax, 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
- Jun 27, 2000, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, VA, City of Galax, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 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 271727 FFWRNK VAC035-640-272015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 125 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GALAX IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... CARROLL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT. * AT 125 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WEST CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HILLSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. AUTOMATED RAIN GAGES INDICATED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN DURING THE LAST HOUR. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 415 PM EDT INCLUDE HILLSVILLE... <<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. $$ LAT...LON 3681, 8100 3657 8082 3670 8049 3691 8065 MG
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS51 KRNK 271730 COR FFWRNK VAC035-272015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED TO REMOVE MENTION OF GALAX... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 125 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT. * AT 125 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WEST CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HILLSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. AUTOMATED RAIN GAGES INDICATED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN DURING THE LAST HOUR. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 415 PM EDT INCLUDE HILLSVILLE... <<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. $$ LAT...LON 3681 8100 3657 8082 3670 8049 3691 8065 MG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, Pittsylvania | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 6:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wythe | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | City of Radford | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 3 hr |
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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.