Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Blacksburg, VA

Issued

Aug 16, 2003, 7:45 AM EDT (11:45 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 2003, 10:45 AM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Blacksburg, VA

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mercer County, WV

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000 
WGUS51 KRNK 161149
FFWRNK
WVC055-161445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
745 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MERCER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EDT

* AT 745 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED JUST OVER 
  2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ALONG RICH CREEK IN THE NORTHERN 
  PART MERCER COUNTY BETWEEN SPANISHBURG AND BEESON SINCE 600 AM.  
  ALSO UP TO 2 INCHES HAD FALLEN ALONG THE WIDEMOUTH CREEK NEAR 
  MITOKA.  
  ADDITIONAL RAIN COMING OUT OF RALEIGH AND WYOMING COUNTIES COULD
  PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH OF RAINFALL BY 900 AM.

* SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 1045 AM EDT INCLUDE
  SPANISHBURG...
  MITOKA...

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 3761 8113 3742 8088 3732 8109 3733 8132
          3750 8126

$$

09

000 
WGUS71 KRNK 161322
FFSRNK
WVC055-161445-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
921 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL
1045 AM EDT...

  MERCER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA

AT 915 AM EDT...MERCER COUNTY 911 REPORTED FLOODING IN AND AROUND 
MATOAKA AND SPANISHBURG...AS WELL AS URBAN FLOODING IN PRINCETON. A 
FAMILY WAS BEING EVACUATED FROM THEIR HOME IN LASHMEET. RADAR 
INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL HAD TAPERED OFF...HOWEVER FLOODING ALONG 
BOTH WIDEMOUTH CREEK AND RICH CREEK...AS WELL AS THE BLUESTONE RIVER 
ALONG HIGHWAY 19...IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH MID MORNING.  SOME 
HEAVY RAIN MAY MOVE BACK INTO THE BLUEFIELD AREA BEFORE 10 AM 
HOWEVER.

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.

CAMPERS IN THE WARNED AREA MUST MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

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.

$$

SK

000 
WGUS71 KRNK 161427
FFSRNK
WVC055-161430-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1027 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 AM EDT FOR

  MERCER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA

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.

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.

$$

SK

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.