Flood Warning
NWS Blacksburg VA ยท US
Details
Flood Warning In Effect Until Monday Morning
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
...The National Weather Service in Blacksburg has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Virginia... New River at Allisonia affecting Pulaski and Wythe Counties. For the New River...including Galax, Allisonia, Radford, Glen Lyn, Hinton...Minor flooding is forecast.
What
Minor flooding is forecast.
Where
New River at Allisonia.
When
Until Monday morning.
Impacts
At 8.0 feet, River begins to overflow the left bank and affect Clarks Ferry Road, Route 653. Water may already cover part of Julia Simpkins Road.
Additional details
- At 8:30 PM EDT Sunday the stage was 7.5 feet. - Bankfull stage is 7.0 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage late this evening to a crest of 8.4 feet just after midnight tonight. It will then fall below flood stage tomorrow morning. - Flood stage is 8.0 feet. - Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of 8.4 feet on 01/08/1946. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive cars through flooded areas. Additional information is available at www.weather.gov. The next statement will be issued Monday morning at 930 AM EDT.
Affected areas
- Pulaski County, VA
- Wythe County, VA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Blacksburg VA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~17s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M4PVH8AW23CVK70TQJXZWCN7
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.564be096b170151f219afdcffd9fd0a4281cb791.001.1
- Sender
- [email protected]
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Blacksburg VA
- AWIPS ID
- CAPRNK
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.2059
- WMO heading
- XOUS51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FLW |
| NationalWeatherService | FLW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLWRNK |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS41 KRNK 120127 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MONDAY MORNING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KRNK.FL.W.0001.261012T0328Z-261012T1500Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-10-12T11:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Pulaski County, VA
- Wythe County, VA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 051155 |
| SAME | 051197 |
| UGC | VAC155 |
| UGC | VAC197 |
- Polygons
- 36.85,-80.99 37.02,-80.74 36.99,-80.64 36.92,-80.7 36.87,-80.82 36.85,-80.89 36.85,-80.99