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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 25, 2001Ashe County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2001, 7:35 PM EDT for Ashe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 115 min. 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 25, 2001, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2001, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Ashe County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2001-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2001-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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 252338
FFWRNK
NCC009-260130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
735 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ASHE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT.

* AT 735 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR JEFFERSON
  ...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 930 PM EDT INCLUDE
  LANSING...

SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH 
FLOODING NAKED AND BUFFALO CREEKS.

<<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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKAshe, Wilkes30 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2001Every 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.