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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this river flood warning at Dec 23, 2015, 8:22 PM EST for Halifax County, Virginia. It took effect at Dec 23, 2015, 10:25 PM EST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2015, 8:22 PM EST (01:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 23, 2015, 10:25 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2015, 4:56 PM EST
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- 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 01:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Dan River at South Boston (SBNV2).
- 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 Dec 23, 7:29 PM EST, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 7:29 PM EST, 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 3:23 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 55 hr |
| Dec 24, 4:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Carroll, Charlotte, Grayson, Halifax, Henry, Patrick and 5 more | 42 hr |
| Dec 24, 5:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Wythe | 45 min |
| Dec 24, 7:33 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 57 min |
| Dec 24, 7:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Grayson | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 8:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 49 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax | 72 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:21 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | City of Danville | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax, City of Danville | 61 min |
| Dec 24, 11:47 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 9 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Danville | 30 min |
| Dec 24, 2:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 20 more | 31 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:45 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 9 hr |
| Dec 24, 7:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 63 min |
| Dec 24, 9:49 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham | 28 min |
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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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.