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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2000, 1:52 PM EDT for Alleghany County, Ashe County, North Carolina. 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, 1:52 PM EDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 271751 FFWRNK NCC005-009-272045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 152 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALLEGHANY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... SOUTHEASTERN ASHE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 150 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF GLENDALE SPRINGS...MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 445 PM EDT INCLUDE GLENDALE SPRINGS... LAUREL SPGS... SPARTA... RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT AROUND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE AREA ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE...JUST NORTHEAST OF GLENDALE SPRINGS. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 300 PM. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING THROUGH 445 PM. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. $$ 8LAT...LON 3638 8143 3631 8135 3650 8097 3653 8118 MTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 7:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.