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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

February 15, 1990Butler County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1990, 10:45 PM EST for Butler County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 1990, 10:45 PM EST (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Feb 16, 1990, 2:00 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Butler County, PA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 58 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1990-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1990-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 526 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
526 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
564 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 16, 4:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver, Butler60 min
Feb 16, 5:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong65 min
Feb 16, 5:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland63 min
Feb 16, 5:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington49 min
Feb 16, 5:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana49 min
Feb 16, 6:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClearfield, Jefferson53 min

Nearby

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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.