Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 2004, 6:51 PM EDT for Greenbrier County, West 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
- May 15, 2004, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2004, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenbrier County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 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 152252
FFWRNK
WVC025-160145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
651 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GREENBRIER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT
* AT 648 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASBURY...
OR ABOUT OVER ALDERSON. THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. FLOODING WILL MAINLY AFFECT THE MUDDY
CREEK BASIN AS WELL AS KITCHEN CREEK AND MILL CREEK BASINS.
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 3781 8071 3774 8066 3772 8055 3797 8028
3795 8060
$$
JDS3 follow-up statements
000
WGUS71 KRNK 152346
FFSRNK
WVC025-160145-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
745 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR GREENBRIER
COUNTY...
AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL
PORTIONS OF GREENBRIER COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OF
RAINFALL WERE COMMON BETWEEN CLINTONVILLE AND ALDERSON SINCE 530
PM.
RUNOFF FROM THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE MUDDY CREEK AND KITCHEN CREEK
TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS IN SOME AREAS. ROUTE 25 OR BLUE SULPHUR ROAD
WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING.
PLEASE RELAY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.
LAT...LON 3781 8071 3774 8066 3772 8055 3797 8028
3795 8060
$$000
WGUS71 KRNK 160009
FFSRNK
WVC025-160145-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
805 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR GREENBRIER
COUNTY...
AT 802 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE
HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED EAST OF THE WARNED AREA...AND HAD DECREASED IN
INTENSITY. HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAIN MAY STILL
PRODUCE FLOODING IN THE MUDDY CREEK BASIN THROUGH 900 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 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 3781 8071 3774 8066 3772 8055 3797 8028
3795 8060
$$000
WGUS71 KRNK 160102
FFSRNK
WVC025-160145-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
902 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2004
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GREENBRIER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. REPORT ANY FLOODING OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY
FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM TO
IMMEDIATELY RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
BLACKSBURG.
LAT...LON 3781 8071 3774 8066 3772 8055 3797 8028
3795 8060
$$Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.