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Flood Watch 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 27, 202521 counties in Virginia; Greenbrier County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flood watch at Jun 27, 2025, 10:34 AM EDT for 21 counties in Virginia; Greenbrier County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jun 27, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2025, 10:34 AM EDT (14:34 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 27, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 27, 2025, 10:56 PM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Flood severity: None

All 24 counties

Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Campbell County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 27, 9:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 9:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:24 AM EDT, 7 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 8:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 8:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 9:48 AM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 9:52 AM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:33 AM EDT, 1 minute 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
Jun 26, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Campbell, Pittsylvania	64 min
Jun 26, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	26 min
Jun 26, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	25 min
Jun 27, 11:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	26 min
Jun 27, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	24 min
Jun 27, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	33 min
Jun 27, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	31 min
Jun 27, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	25 min
Jun 27, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland	44 min
Jun 27, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	29 min
Jun 27, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	26 min
Jun 27, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	24 min
Jun 27, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	28 min
Jun 27, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	25 min
Jun 27, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania	27 min
Jun 27, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath	55 min
Jun 27, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Roanoke, City of Salem	37 min
Jun 27, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Botetourt	25 min
Jun 27, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	32 min
Jun 27, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	55 min
Jun 27, 7:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Bath	2 hr
Jun 27, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Covington	33 min
Jun 27, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig	27 min
Jun 27, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	35 min
Jun 27, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	26 min
Jun 27, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	36 min
Jun 27, 2:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Ashe	4 hr
Jun 27, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	29 min
Jun 27, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	37 min
Jun 26, 8:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier, Summers	3 hr
Jun 27, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	25 min
Jun 27, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	26 min
Jun 27, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	47 min
Jun 27, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Mercer, Summers	39 min
Jun 27, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	31 min
Jun 27, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Monroe	28 min
Jun 27, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Monroe	30 min
Jun 27, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	28 min
Jun 27, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Greenbrier	3 hr

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.