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Flash Flood Warning 81, NWS Blacksburg, VA

August 16, 20104 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2010, 5:08 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 2010, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2010, 8:09 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 warning went out at Aug 16, 3:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 4:18 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 16, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
335 PM EDT MON AUG 16 2010

VAZ014-017-022-033-162015-
FLOYD VA-FRANKLIN VA-MONTGOMERY VA-ROANOKE VA-
335 PM EDT MON AUG 16 2010

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT FLOYD...FRANKLIN...MONTGOMERY
AND ROANOKE COUNTIES...

AT 331 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SHAWSVILLE...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND
QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CROCKETT SPRINGS AROUND 415 PM.

LAT...LON 3732 8011 3713 7994 3696 8029 3718 8041
      3726 8021

Special weather statement, Aug 16, 3:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:14 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:23 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:34 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:47 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	49 min
Aug 16, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pulaski	40 min
Aug 16, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Roanoke, City of Salem	51 min
Aug 16, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery	40 min
Aug 16, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham	67 min
Aug 16, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, Roanoke	29 min
Aug 16, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	27 min
Aug 16, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	46 min
Aug 16, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham	37 min
Aug 16, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	28 min
Aug 16, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	37 min
Aug 16, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	25 min
Aug 16, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Appomattox, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania	33 min
Aug 16, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	51 min

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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.