Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2004, 6:25 PM EDT for Carroll County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 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 1, 2004, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2004, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carroll County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 012228 FFWRNK VAC035-020030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 625 PM EDT SUN AUG 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 622 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF HILLSVILLE. THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DUGSPUR... HILLSVILLE... SYLVATUS... LONGSHOAL... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. SOME CREEKS AFFECTED INCLUDE...GREASY CREEK AND LITTLE REED ISLAND CREEK. 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. 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 3689 8064 3681 8092 3661 8085 3668 8052 $$ WP
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRNK 012329 FFSRNK VAC035-020030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 726 PM EDT SUN AUG 1 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR CARROLL COUNTY... AT 724 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF CARROLL COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODLAWN. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY WEST. FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF HILLSVILLE AND WOODLAWN CAN BE EXPECT THROUGH 830 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY FOR HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. PLEASE PHONE YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING...BY CALLING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. LAT...LON 3689 8064 3681 8092 3661 8085 3668 8052 $$ 05
000 WGUS71 KRNK 020028 FFSRNK VAC035-020030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 827 PM EDT SUN AUG 1 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CARROLL COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 830 PM EDT... HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED ACROSS MOST LOCATIONS THAT HAD HEAVY RAIN EARLIER. CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RUN HIGH OVER THE NEXT HOUR...BUT SHOULD BEGIN RECEDING THEREAFTER. TO REPORT ANY FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. LAT...LON 3689 8064 3681 8092 3661 8085 3668 8052 $$ 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.