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River Flood Warning 24, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 12, 2010Buckingham County, Fluvanna County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2010, 12:03 PM EST for Buckingham County, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It took effect at Mar 14, 2010, 7:47 PM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2010, 12:03 PM EST (17:03 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2010, 7:47 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2010, 4:20 PM EDT
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Buckingham County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point James River (VA) at Bremo Bluff (BREV2).

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 12, 11:43 AM EST, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 11:43 AM EST, 20 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
Mar 12, 6:15 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski and 4 more	5 hr
Mar 12, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RNK	Botetourt	27 hr
Mar 12, 3:23 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	6 hr
Mar 12, 10:49 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers	38 hr
Mar 12, 6:36 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.