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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 26, 1992Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1992, 8:48 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1992, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1992, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 1992-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 571 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1992-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -208 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
571 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 8:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene, Washington116 min
Jul 26, 10:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWashington6 hr
Jul 26, 8:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBrooke117 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.