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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA

January 2, 2022Tazewell County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this river flood warning at Jan 2, 2022, 5:51 AM EST for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 2, 2022, 5:51 AM EST (10:51 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2022, 1:56 PM EST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Tazewell County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Clinch River near Richlands (RLRV2).

Action stage: 7.5 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03521500, 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 Jan 2, 4:11 AM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 4:11 AM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 4:27 AM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 2, 1:40 AM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 7:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	22 min
Jan 2, 1:40 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	35 min
Jan 2, 4:04 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 26 more	32 hr
Jan 2, 4:04 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	32 hr
Jan 2, 4:35 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Tazewell	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2022 Every river flood warning in 2022

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.