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River Flood Warning 21, NWS Blacksburg, VA

August 7, 2024Rockingham County, North Carolina

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 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 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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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 12:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRNKPittsylvania, City of Danville3 days
Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRNKPittsylvania62 hr
Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRNKHalifax4 days
Aug 7, 3:51 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRNKHalifax4 days
Aug 7, 5:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRNKRoanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem66 hr
Aug 7, 5:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningRNKCharlotte, Halifax4 days

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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.