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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 27, 2000Carroll County, City of Galax, Virginia

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 81 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHenry, Pittsylvania39 min
Jun 27, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKAmherst44 min
Jun 27, 6:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKWythe3 hr
Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKCity of Radford3 hr
Jun 27, 7:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKPulaski3 hr

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.