Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2003, 4:18 PM EDT for Charlotte 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2003, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Charlotte County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 678 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 092018 FFWRNK VAC037-092315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 418 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 415 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 300 PM BETWEEN THE CITIES OF WYLLIEBURG AND REDOAK AND ALONG BLUESTONE CREEK. * SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 715 PM EDT INCLUDE REDOAK...WYLLIEBURG...AND BARNES JUNCTION. 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 3685 7854 3675 7861 3677 7865 3686 7861 $$ 12
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRNK 092108 FFSRNK VAC037-092315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 508 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM EDT... SOUTH CENTRAL CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AT 500 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL BETWEEN REDOAK AND WYLLIESBURG. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL HAS CAUSED LAW ENFORCEMENT TO CLOSE PORTIONS OF ROUTE 92 AND ROUTE 631 IN THE KING CROSS ROADS AREA. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS ALSO REPORTED POWER OUTAGE ACROSS THIS AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY AWAY FROM DRAINAGE DITCHES...STORM SEWERS OR STREAMS...AS THEY CAN BECOME DEADLY TORRENTS AFTER HEAVY RAIN. RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ RS
000 WGUS71 KRNK 092238 FFSRNK VAC037-092245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 638 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED...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. 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. $$ RS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bedford, Franklin | 4 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bland | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.