Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 3:45 PM EDT for Giles 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 10, 2005, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Giles County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 101947
FFWRNK
VAC071-102245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
345 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GILES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 343 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WHITE
GATE...THESSALIA...POPLAR HILL AND BANE.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
WALKER CREEK...AS WELL AS SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE SOUTHERN
PORTION OF THE COUNTY.
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.
FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW
WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN
BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID
STREAMS OR CREEKS IN THESE AREAS.
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 3717 8084 3721 8073 3723 8070 3729 8071
3725 8089
$$
WP2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS71 KRNK 102048
FFSRNK
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
446 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005
VAC071-102245-
GILES VA-
446 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR GILES
COUNTY...
AT 443 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE HEAVY RAINS FALLING ALONG CREEKS THAT FEED INTO WALKER
CREEK. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW THAT OVER TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN
HAS FALLEN SINCE 300 PM IN THE WALKER CREEK AREA...BETWEEN WHITE
GATE AND POPLAR HILL. WITH RAIN PERSISTING...EXPECT FLASH FLOODING
OF WALKER CREEK TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IN THE POPLAR HILL AREA.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
THESSALIA AND BANE.
TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3717 8084 3721 8072 3723 8070 3729 8071
3725 8089
$$
WP000
WGUS71 KRNK 102246
FFSRNK
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
644 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005
VAC071-102254-
GILES VA-
644 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GILES COUNTY EXPIRES AT 645 PM EDT...
RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA...AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
NO FLOODING PROBLEMS. THE THREAT OF FLOODING HAS ENDED.
IF YOU SAW FLOODING EARLIER IN THE POPLAR HILL AREA OR ALONG WALKER
CREEK...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG
AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.
LAT...LON 3717 8084 3721 8072 3723 8070 3729 8071
3725 8089
$$
WPNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.