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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2012, 4:58 PM EDT for Stokes County, North Carolina. 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 12, 2012, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 8:01 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Stokes County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
612 WGUS51 KRNK 122058 FFWRNK NCC169-130300- /O.NEW.KRNK.FF.W.0032.120612T2058Z-120613T0300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 458 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN STOKES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. * AT 452 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR SANDY RIDGE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. RAIN THAT FELL YESTERDAY AND RAINFALL RATES NEAR 3 INCHES MAY PRODUCE FLOODING ALONG CROOKED AND LITTLE CROOKED CREEK. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PRESTONVILLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING INCLUDING MUDSLIDES...OR ROAD CLOSURES TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. DELAYED REPORTS ARE WELCOME. && LAT...LON 3645 8004 3645 8026 3654 8028 3654 8003 $$ RCS
2 follow-up statements
192 WGUS71 KRNK 122141 FFSRNK FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 541 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2012 NCC169-130300- /O.CON.KRNK.FF.W.0032.000000T0000Z-120613T0300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ STOKES NC- 541 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2012 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR NORTHEASTERN STOKES COUNTY... AT 535 PM EDT...TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL YESTERDAY WITH AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES THIS AFTERNOON. THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN THE PAST 24 HOURS...FELL IN AN AREA KNOWN FOR FLOODING. ROADS THAT MAY BE FLOODED ARE SAM HILL ROAD ALONG CROOKED CREEK AND BEASLEY SCHOOL ROAD ALONG LITTLE CROOKED CREEK. SNOW HILL CREEK ALONG SNOW HILL CHURCH ROAD MAY ALSO BE RUNNING HIGH FROM RECENT RAINFALL. THE SHOWERS THAT BROUGHT THE RAIN TO NORTHEASTERN STOKES COUNTY HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER...SUBSTANTIAL RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 800 PM...KEEPING CREEKS AND STREAMS HIGH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SANDY RIDGE PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING INCLUDING MUDSLIDES...OR ROAD CLOSURES TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. DELAYED REPORTS ARE WELCOME. && LAT...LON 3645 8004 3645 8026 3654 8028 3654 8003 $$ RCS
692 WGUS71 KRNK 130001 FFSRNK FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 801 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2012 NCC169-130011- /O.CAN.KRNK.FF.W.0032.000000T0000Z-120613T0300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ STOKES NC- 801 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHEASTERN STOKES COUNTY... FLOODING HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3645 8004 3645 8026 3654 8028 3654 8003 $$ RCS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes, Yadkin | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 10:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Stokes, Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin | 13 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Yadkin | 61 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.