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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this river flood warning at Feb 7, 2025, 12:23 AM EST for Greenbrier County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 7, 2025, 4:23 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2025, 12:23 AM EST (05:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2025, 4:23 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2025, 3:58 PM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Greenbrier County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Greenbrier River at Alderson (ALDW2). The gauge peaked at 15.28 ft at Feb 7, 2025, 7:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 9 ft
- Minor stage
- 14 ft
- Moderate stage
- 16 ft
- Major stage
- 19 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03183500, 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 Feb 6, 9:23 PM EST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 9:23 PM EST, 3 hours before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 6, 7:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Giles | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 9:07 PM EST | Flood Watch | RNK | Bland, Giles, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Giles | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 10:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig, Roanoke, City of Salem | 36 min |
| Feb 6, 10:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Patrick | 44 min |
| Feb 6, 11:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry, Patrick | 35 min |
| Feb 6, 11:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Danville | 33 min |
| Feb 7, 12:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax, City of Danville | 33 min |
| Feb 7, 1:59 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Buckingham, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:05 PM EST | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, City of Covington | 37 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer | 35 min |
| Feb 6, 8:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Monroe, Summers | 33 min |
| Feb 6, 8:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 37 min |
| Feb 6, 11:06 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 12 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:34 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Mercer, Summers | 116 min |
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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.