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Areal Flood Warning 39, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this areal flood warning at Dec 24, 2015, 7:10 PM EST for Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 6 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
- Dec 24, 2015, 7:10 PM EST (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2015, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Rockingham County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Dec 24, 6:44 PM EST, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 6:44 PM EST, 26 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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| Dec 24, 8:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 11:47 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 3 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:49 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 8 hr |
| Dec 25, 5:25 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:52 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Bland, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 1:03 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 6:52 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 9 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:15 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 6 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.