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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT for Campbell County, City of Lynchburg, 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 5, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Campbell County, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 052230 FFWRNK VAC031-680-060130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 630 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA LYNCHBURG CITY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 930 PM EDT. * AT 629 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF EVINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 930 PM EDT INCLUDE RUSTBURG... LYNCHBURG CITY... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 460...FROM LYNCHBURG CITY TO RUSTBURG. <<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 $$ 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockbridge | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Campbell | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 6:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Botetourt, Craig | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 7:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bedford | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 18 min |
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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.