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WHAT: Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
On Tuesday at 4:07 a.m. the NWS Blacksburg VA released an updated flood watch valid from 2 p.m. until Wednesday midnight. The watch is for Surry, Stokes, Rockingham, Caswell, Wilkes and Yadkin counties.
On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key member of its team: the warning coordination meteorologist,
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NWS extends Flash Flood Warning for Colonial Heights, Petersburg.The National Weather Service (NWS) extended a July 15 Flash Flood Warning until 11 a.m. for Colonial Heights and Petersburg. At 1:45 p.m., they announced the Flash Flood Warning was extended to 8 p.m.
On Monday at 7 p.m. the NWS Raleigh NC released a flood advisory in effect until 10 p.m. for Anson and Stanly counties.
The flood warning is in effect until Tuesday, July 15, at 7 a.m. for the Frio River. NWS said that major flooding is forecast for the Frio River below Dry Frio, with the National Water Prediction Service predicting the river will hit 18.6 feet at around 5 p.m. The major flood stage for the Frio River is 17 feet.
After deadly floodwaters swept through Central Texas, there are questions about the timeline of weather alerts and possible gaps in the warning system.
The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to phones in the area, a spokesman for camp’s operators said Wednesday.
High humidity levels, summer heat and long days will combine to produce conditions favorable for drenching thunderstorms leading to additional flash flooding in the coming days in many parts of the U.