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Flood Watch 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flood watch at Aug 30, 2020, 7:55 PM EDT for 24 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in North Carolina; Greenbrier County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Aug 31, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2020, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 31, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2020, 9:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Flood severity
- None
All 32 counties
Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll 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 Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Henry County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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 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 flood watch went out at Aug 30, 3:06 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:06 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
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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.