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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2026, 4:54 AM EDT for Bland County, Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2026, 4:54 AM EDT (08:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2026, 8:13 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bland County, VA, Tazewell County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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 nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.1
- Supercell composite
- 17.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 22, 2:11 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:11 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 445 AM EDT Wed Jul 22 2026 VAZ019-020-024-WVZ042>044-507-508-230845- Alleghany VA-Bath-Rockbridge-Mercer-Summers-Monroe- Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier- 445 AM EDT Wed Jul 22 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. VAZ007-009>011-230845- Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles- 445 AM EDT Wed Jul 22 2026 ...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ012>018-022-023-032>035-043>047-058-059-230845- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Watauga-Wilkes- Yadkin-Wythe-Pulaski-Montgomery-Grayson-Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Roanoke- Botetourt-Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Henry-Pittsylvania- Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte- 445 AM EDT Wed Jul 22 2026 ...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, central Virginia, south central Virginia, southwest Virginia and west central Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. There is a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 5) for severe weather to include damaging wind gusts and a tornado or two today. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 11:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Amherst, Rockbridge | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 12:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Buckingham | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 4:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Bland, Tazewell | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski, Wythe, City of Radford | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 7:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 7:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Smyth, Wythe | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 9:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Smyth, Wythe | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 10:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 11:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Franklin, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 12:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Halifax, Pittsylvania | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Danville | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 2:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry, Patrick, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry, Wilkes | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 67 min |
| Jul 21, 9:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 28 min |
| Jul 21, 9:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Greenbrier | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 9:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 10:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 10:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 2 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.