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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 5, 2001Bedford County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2001, 7:25 PM EDT for Bedford 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 5, 2001, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Bedford County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 13 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KRNK 052326
FFWRNK
VAC019-515-060215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
725 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BEDFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA
  BEDFORD CITY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT.

* AT 723 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH   
  FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS FROM MONTVALE...THROUGH BEDFORD CITY...AND 
  INTO THE FOREST AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 800 PM...
  WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. ROAD FLOODING WILL 
  CONTINUE...AND FLOODING MAY OCCUR ALONG THE LITTLE OTTER AND BIG 
  OTTER RIVERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES.

LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 1015 PM EDT INCLUDE

   BEDFORD CITY...
   MONTVALE...
   FOREST...

<<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
$$

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 5, 2:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
242 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

RIDGE IN THE EAST AND TROF IN THE WEST WILL SHIFT OVER THE NEXT FEW
DAYS WITH A TROF IN THE EAST BY LATE IN THE WEEK.  THIS WILL PUSH
THE WARM FRONT SOUTH OF THE FA AGAIN THURSDAY. IN THE MEANTIME WE
WILL SIT IN THE WARM SECTOR AND SEE SEVERAL CONVECTION PRODUCING
S/WAVES ROLL THRU.  WILL GO WITH 30-40 POPS THRU THURSDAY AND TRY
NOT TO GET FANCY WITH TIMING.

BEYOND THURSDAY LOOKING RELATIVELY COOLER AND DRIER. WAVE ON SAT
MIGHT GET SOMETHING GOING...BUT WILL LEAVE DRY FOR NOW.

FCSTID = 9
ROA   69  87  67  77 /  30  40  30  40
LYH   65  87  65  77 /  30  40  30  40
DAN   70  90  71  80 /  40  40  30  40
BLF   63  78  60  72 /  40  40  40  40
LWB   62  77  60  72 /  40  40  40  40
BCB   65  80  63  75 /  30  40  40  40
TNB   67  81  64  75 /  40  40  40  40

.RNK...
NC...NONE.
VA...NONE.
WV...NONE.
%

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 2:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
253 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

TEST...TEST...TEST

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

NCZ001>003-018-019-VAZ015-016-032-052100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
345 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA
AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SITUATED IN
SOUTHWEST WILKES COUNTY...JUST SOUTHWEST OF WILKESBORO AND SOUTHERN
CARROLL COUNTY...SOUTH OF FANCYw GAP. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE
GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY
NORTHEAST.

JW

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
500 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

I452 PM     HILLSVILLE                VA   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   CARROLL                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER

BS

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
615 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    BEDFORD                   VA   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   BEDFORD                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:56 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
656 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

650 PM     LYNCHBURG                 VA   FLOODING
06/05/01   CAMPBELL                       DREAMING CREEK NEAR
                                          BUSINESS 460 AND
                                          LYNCHBURG EXPRESSWAY OUT
                                          OF ITS BANKS.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:10 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
710 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
_
505 PM     SANDSTONE                 WV   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   SUMMERS                        REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

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, 6:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Campbell, City of Lynchburg	3 hr
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, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte	18 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.