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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2004, 4:08 PM EDT for Tazewell 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
- Jun 12, 2004, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tazewell County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 122009 FFWRNK VAC185-122315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 408 PM EDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TAZEWELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 407 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLIFFIELD...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF RICHLANDS...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CLIFFIELD... AMONATE... TAZEWELL... TIPTOP... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. PLEASE RELAY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. LAT...LON 3720 8184 3703 8178 3705 8140 3729 8139 $$ KK
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRNK 122120 FFSRNK VAC185-122315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 517 PM EDT SAT JUN 12 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR TAZEWELL COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF TAZEWELL COUNTY THIS EVENING. SOME ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT THIS SHOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. LAT...LON 3720 8184 3703 8178 3705 8140 3729 8139 $$ 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth | 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.