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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2001, 12:58 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 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
- Jul 29, 2001, 12:58 PM EDT (16:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Lexington, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 291657 FFWRNK VAC005-017-163-560-580-678-WVC025-055-063-089-292045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1258 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA ALLEGHANY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA BATH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA SUMMERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA CLIFTON FORGE CITY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA LEXINGTON CITY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA COVINGTON CITY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA GREENBRIER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 1248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF WARM SPRINGS TO 33 MILES WEST OF MATOAKA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 445 PM EDT INCLUDE RUPERT... SANDSTONE... RENICK... MATOAKA... HINTON... CAMP CREEK... SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING WEST OF THE WARNED AREA. THE STORMS WILL PROGRESS EAST ACROSS THE WARNING ARED BETWEEN 100 AND 200 PM EDT. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS...LOW LYING ROADS AND PROPERTY AND URBAN AREAS IN THE WARNING AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE 1 8 6 6 2 1 5 4 3 2 4. .END $$ 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 11:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Grayson, Smyth | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 6 hr |
| Jul 29, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2001Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.