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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 8, 2001Mercer County, Summers County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2001, 9:29 AM EDT for Mercer County, Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 106 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
Jul 8, 2001, 9:29 AM EDT (13:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2001, 11:15 AM EDT
In force
106 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Mercer County, WV, Summers County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:29 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 2001-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 221 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 2001-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 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
221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRNK 081330
FFWRNK
WVC055-089-081515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
929 AM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MERCER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA
  SOUTHWEST SUMMERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1115 AM EDT.

* AT 928 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  THUNDERSTORMWITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF          
  PIPESTEM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 1115 AM EDT INCLUDE
  CAMP CREEK...
  PIPESTEM...
  PRINCETON...

SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE 
WARNED AREA. LOOK FOR ANOTHER ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN THE 
NEXT HOUR OR TWO...WHICH WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING AND ROCKSLIDES 
ACROSS THE AREA!.

<<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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 8:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKGreenbrier, Monroe48 min
Jul 8, 11:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKMercer117 min
Jul 8, 12:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKMercer2 hr
Jul 8, 5:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKMercer, Summers6 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.