Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 2004, 5:54 PM EDT for Ashe 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
- May 8, 2004, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2004, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ashe County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 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 082158 FFWRNK NCC009-090100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 554 PM EDT SAT MAY 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ASHE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 552 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR NELLA...OR ABOUT OVER LANSING. THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY... BETWEEN LANSING AND NELLA CAUSING FLASH FLOODING ALONG HELTON CREEK...BIG HORSE CREEK...AND JERD BRANCH. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE AREAS...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. TURN AROUND...AND SEEK AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. 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 3658 8160 3648 8160 3645 8137 3657 8143 $$ 05
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRNK 082259 FFSRNK NCC009-090100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 654 PM EDT SAT MAY 8 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN ASHE COUNTY... AT 653 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHERN ASHE COUNTY. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LANSING. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHWESTERN ASHE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. FLASH FLOODING CAN EXPECTED ALONG THE FOLLOWING CREEKS AND STREAMS...HELTON CREEK...BIG HORSE CREEK...AND BIG LAUREL CREEK. REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM TO IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BLACKSBURG. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY FOR HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3658 8167 3648 8169 3645 8137 3657 8142 $$ 05
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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.