Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT for City of Lynchburg, 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 28, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County City of Lynchburg, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 1180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 282316 FFWRNK VAC680-290215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 715 PM EDT THU AUG 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LYNCHBURG IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 715 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER LYNCHBURG CITY. RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE CITY SINCE 615 PM. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS HIGHLY LIKELY THROUGH 8 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 1015 PM EDT INCLUDE LYNCHBURG CITY... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 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 3744 7914 3739 7911 3737 7921 3747 7923 $$ 09
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRNK 290028 FFSRNK VAC680-290045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 828 PM EDT THU AUG 28 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR LYNCHBURG CITY HAS BEEN CANCELED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER...SOME CITY ROADS WITH POOR DRAINAGE MAY STILL BE COVERED WITH WATER. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL IF TRAVELING THROUGH THE CITY THE REST OF THE EVENING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. $$ JDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.