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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 7:58 PM EDT for Campbell County, City of Lynchburg, Virginia. It was in force for 92 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 4, 2002, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- 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 00:00 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, 12.0 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
- 503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KRNK 042358
FFWRNK
VAC031-680-050130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
756 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LYNCHBURG CITY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
NORTH CENTRAL CAMPBELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 930 PM EDT.
* AT 756 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL 3 MILES WEST OF LYNCHBURG CITY...MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH. AS THIS STORM PASSES OVER THE URBAN AREAS THE TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF ROADS...RESULTING IN
SOME ROAD CLOSURES.
<<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED.
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.
$$
LAT...LON 3740 7925 3733 7926 3733 7901 3739 7901
3739 7911 3746 7920The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wythe | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 49 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.