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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA

September 5, 20089 counties in Virginia; Caswell County, Rockingham County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood watch at Sep 5, 2008, 2:43 PM EDT for 9 counties in Virginia; Caswell County, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 6, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 2008, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 6, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 6, 2008, 12:37 PM EDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Flood severity: None

Counties Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, Halifax County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 5, 2:03 PM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 2:03 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.