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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2000, 6:35 PM EDT for Wythe County, 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, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 272236 FFWRNK VAC197-280130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 635 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WYTHE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT. * AT 635 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WYTHE COUNTY. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAVE SHOWN A TENDENCY TO TRACK REPEATIDLY OVER THE SAME AREA...MAINLY ALONG THE INTERSTATE ROUTE 81 CORRIDOR. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 930 PM EDT INCLUDE MAX MEADOWS... <<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOTp DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. $$ SN
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, 1:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll, City of Galax | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 44 min |
| 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 |
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.