Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2003, 4:50 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2003, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Watauga County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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 282054 FFWRNK NCC189-282345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 450 PM EDT THU AUG 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WATAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF WATAUGA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. COVE CREEK CAME OUT OF IT BANKS AND FLOODED STREETS IN ZIONVILLE. 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 3628 8197 3618 8183 3636 8167 3642 8184 $$ 07
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRNK 282118 FFSRNK NCC189-282345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 518 PM EDT THU AUG 28 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM EDT... WATAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA HEAVY RAIN FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS HAS CAUSED SOME SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF COVE CREEK ALONG NORTH FORK ROAD IN ZIONVILLE IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY. AT LEAST TWO BRIDGES HAVE BEEN WASH AWAY AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME EROSION ON PORTIONS OF THE ROAD. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL IN THE PART OF THE COUNTY THIS EVENING...PLEASE CHOOSE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY AWAY FROM DRAINAGE DITCHES...STORM SEWERS OR STREAMS...AS THEY CAN BECOME DEADLY TORRENTS AFTER HEAVY RAIN. RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ JDS
000 WGUS71 KRNK 282230 FFSRNK NCC189-282245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 630 PM EDT THU AUG 28 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR WATAUGA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... 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...PORTIONS OF NORTH FORK ROAD IN ZIONVILLE WERE CLOSED DUE TO FLOOD DAMAGE. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTY THIS EVENING...PLEASE CHOOSE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. 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. $$ JDS
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 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.