Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 2002, 7:01 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Virginia. 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
- Sep 18, 2002, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRNK 182301 RRA FFWRNK VAC155-190200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 657 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 657 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF DUBLIN. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO INCHES IN AN HOUR. * OTHER LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE...FAIRLAWN AND PARROTT... <<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 BLACKSBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ LAT...LON 3723 8063 3715 8057 3709 8077 3716 8081 12
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRNK 190003 FFSRNK 190200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 800 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PULASKI COUNTY VIRGINIA UNTIL 10:00 PM EDT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 9:00 PM EDT. AT 8:00 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY VIRGINIA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 3.5 AND 4.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST NORTH OF DUBLIN VIRGINIA...ALONG BACK AND NECK CREEKS. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY ALONG THESE STREAMS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES...WHICH MAY EFFECT PARTS OF NECK CREEK ROAD...HIGHLAND ROAD...KENT FARM ROAD...AND STATE ROUTE 100. IN WEST VIRGINIA...THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED IN NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY. HOWEVER...RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT NEARLY 4.0 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN WOLFCREEK AND JOHNSON CROSSROADS. FLASH FLOODING MAY BE ONGOING...ALONG WOLFCREEK...EFFECTING PARTS OF COUNTY ROAD 10 AND STATE ROUTE 3. FOR YOUR SAFETY...BE VERY CAUTIOUS OF WATER THAT COVERS THE ROAD AT NIGHT...THE WATER DEPTH COULD BE GREATER THAN YOU THINK...AND BRIDGES WASHED OUT. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$
000 WGUS71 KRNK 190209 FFSRNK VAC155-190300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 957 PM EDT WED SEP 18 2002 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PULASKI COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS PULASKI COUNTY...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 4.0 AND 5.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 6:30 AND 9:00 PM JUST NORTH OF DUBLIN VIRGINIA. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING 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. $$ 07
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.