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River Flood Warning 28, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 14, 2010Halifax County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this river flood warning at Mar 14, 2010, 5:18 PM EDT for Halifax County, Virginia. It took effect at Mar 15, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 14, 2010, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 15, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 15, 2010, 7:33 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Flood severity
Minor

County Halifax County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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 river

Written for the forecast point Dan River at South Boston (SBNV2). The gauge peaked at 18.90 ft at Mar 15, 2010, 1:00 AM EDT.

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Action stage
18 ft
Minor stage
22 ft
Moderate stage
29 ft
Major stage
34 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02076000, 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 13, 6:21 PM EST, 21 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 6:21 PM EST, 21 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 7:21 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementRNKFloyd, Henry, Patrick54 min
Mar 13, 9:51 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementRNKPittsylvania84 min
Mar 13, 11:11 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningRNKCharlotte, Halifax35 hr
Mar 14, 3:47 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRNKGiles6 hr
Mar 14, 9:47 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRNKMercer3 hr
Mar 14, 9:51 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRNKGreenbrier6 hr
Mar 14, 3:19 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRNKGreenbrier4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2010Every 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.