Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2005, 6:08 PM EDT for Campbell 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 29, 2005, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2005, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Campbell County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 292212 FFWRNK VAC031-300115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 608 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CAMPBELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 607 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN NEAR GLADYS. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL LIKELY OCCUR OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTY THROUGH 8:00 PM BEFORE THE STORMS WEAKEN. 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. SENECA CREEK WILL LIKELY FLOOD AS WELL. 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. REMEMBER TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. 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 3726 7901 3724 7924 3713 7923 3707 7891 $$ JH
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRNK 292357 FFSRNK FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 755 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 VAC031-300005- CAMPBELL VA- 755 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL CAMPBELL COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 7:53 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CAMPBELL COUNTY HAD DISSIPATED. SOME ADDITIONAL LIGHT SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING BUT SHOULD NOT BE HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE ANY FLOODING PROBLEMS. TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. LAT...LON 3726 7901 3724 7924 3713 7923 3707 7891 $$ JH
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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.