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River Flood Warning 21, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this river flood warning at Aug 7, 2024, 3:51 PM EDT for Rockingham County, North Carolina. It took effect at Aug 9, 2024, 12:53 AM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2024, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2024, 12:53 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2024, 9:43 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Rockingham County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Dan River near Wentworth (WENN7).
- Action stage
- 17 ft
- Minor stage
- 19 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 29 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 2071000, 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 Aug 7, 11:42 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 11:42 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 3 days |
| Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 62 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax | 4 days |
| Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax | 4 days |
| Aug 7, 5:30 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 66 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:30 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 4 days |
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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.