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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2003, 4:37 PM EDT for Wilkes 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2003, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilkes County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 810 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRNK 082040 FFWRNK NCC193-082330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 437 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTING OVER NORTHWEST WILKES COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 3:00 PM. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...WHICH WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING ALONG THE NORTH FORK OF THE REDDIES RIVER AND DARNELL CREEK. STATE ROADS 1501 AND 1567 ARE ALSO LIKELY TO SEE SOME FLOODING. * SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 730 PM EDT INCLUDE VANNOY... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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 3641 8112 3621 8116 3611 8140 3637 8130 $$ 10
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRNK 082149 FFSRNK NCC193-082345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 547 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM EDT... NORTHWEST WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AT 548 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA HAD TAPERED OFF TO LIGHTER SHOWERS. HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL LIKELY CAUSE SMALLER STREAMS TO FLOOD IN THE WILBAR AREA THROUGH 7:30 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ JH
000 WGUS71 KRNK 082150 CCA FFSRNK NCC193-082345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 547 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM EDT... NORTHWEST WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AT 546 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA HAD TAPERED OFF TO LIGHTER SHOWERS. HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL LIKELY CAUSE SMALLER STREAMS TO FLOOD IN THE WILBAR AREA THROUGH 7:30 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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. $$ JH
000 WGUS71 KRNK 082237 FFSRNK NCC193-082330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 636 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR NORTHWEST WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT. EVEN THOUGH STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RECEDING... SOME ROADWAYS STILL MAY BE COVERED WITH WATER. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 3 hr |
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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.