Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2005, 2:44 PM EDT for Wythe 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 9, 2005, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2005, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 091849 FFWRNK VAC197-092145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 244 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN WYTHE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 242 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED DITCHES AND CULVERTS FLOWING AT BANKFULL IN THE EASTERN PART OF WYTHE COUNTY. A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH THE COUNTY WHERE INTERSTATES 77 AND 81 COINCIDE. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE EASTERN PART OF WYTHE COUNTY OVER THE NEXT 45 MINUTES TO AN HOUR. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MAX MEADOWS AND GUNTON PARK. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTES OF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR...WITH THE BULK OF THAT POSSIBLY OCCURRING IN LESS THAN ONE HALF OF AN HOUR. 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. 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 3681 8103 3688 8078 3706 8093 3702 8110 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRNK 092028 FFSRNK FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 427 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 VAC197-092037- WYTHE VA- 427 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WYTHE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE DISSIPATED...AND THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF FLOODING. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3681 8103 3688 8078 3706 8093 3702 8110 $$ DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry | 23 min |
| Jun 9, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockbridge | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 3:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Grayson, Smyth | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.