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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 27, 1992Bedford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1992, 8:25 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1992, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1992, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Bedford County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 1992-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1763 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1763 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.3

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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.