Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2002, 6:42 PM EDT for Watauga County, North Carolina. 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
- Jul 2, 2002, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Watauga County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 022242 FFWRNK NCC189-030115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 640 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WATAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 640 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY NEAR ROMINGER AND VALLE CRUCIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST. CREEKS AND STREAMS IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS WILL LIKELY FLOOD THROUGH MID-EVENING. * OTHER LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE...LOVILL...MEAT CAMP AND SILVERSTONE... <<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. RELAY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN IN BLACKSBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ 09 LAT...LON 3628 8162 3618 8175 3613 8195 3637 8173
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRNK 030125 FFSRNK NCC189-030215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 915 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXPIRED FOR WATAUGA COUNTY... AT 9:15 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS WATAUGA COUNTY...AND THE FLOOD THREAT HAS ENDED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE WARNED AREA. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ LAT...LON 3617 8156 3637 8171 3620 8199 3599 8189 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 32 min |
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.