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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood watch at Jun 9, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT for 37 counties in Virginia; 9 counties in North Carolina; Mercer County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2013, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Flood severity
- None
All 49 counties
Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 Jun 9, 3:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 9, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig, Roanoke, City of Salem | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Giles, Montgomery, City of Radford | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 8:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Lexington | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, City of Buena Vista | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 11:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 12:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 4:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Smyth, Wythe, City of Galax | 88 min |
| Jun 10, 4:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington and 1 more | 84 min |
| Jun 10, 5:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington and 1 more | 53 min |
| Jun 10, 9:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 24 min |
| Jun 10, 9:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 12:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 1:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Montgomery, Pulaski, Wythe | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Montgomery, City of Radford | 25 min |
| Jun 10, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig, Montgomery, Roanoke | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd, City of Salem | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Botetourt, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 25 min |
| Jun 10, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bedford | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Botetourt | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bedford | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Buena Vista | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Lynchburg | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 8:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 12:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes | 27 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Virginia, 2013Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2013Flash Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013
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.