Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 1992, 6:02 PM EDT for Greene County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 4, 1992, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 042206 FFWPIT PAC059-125-WVC051-069-050000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 602 PM EDT FRI SEP 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...GREENE COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE ...MARSHALL COUNTY...OHIO COUNTY AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CLAYSVILLE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND ANOTHER JUST EAST OF WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA. THERE WERE ALSO OTHER STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CAMERON AND EAST OF MOUNDSVILLE IN MARSHALL COUNTY AS WELL AS WESTERN GREENE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL BRING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THAT WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CvROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 4, 5:53 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PAZ001>006-013>015-WVZ001-050000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SLOW MOVING HEAVY THUNDERSTORM DOWNPOURS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 545 AM EDT FRI SEP 4 1992 ...ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...THE LAUREL HIGHLANDS...AND WEST VIRGINIA NORTHERN PANHANDLE...BE ON THE LOOKOUT THIS EVENING FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING FLOODING ON ROADS AND WHERE DRAINAGE IS POOR... TRAVELERS..BE ALERT FOR SUDDENLY LOW VISIBILITY AND ROADWAY PONDING. REDUCE SPEED AND PULL OVER IF NECESSARY. BECAUSE OF THE STORMS SLOW MOVEMENT...PROLONGED HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN ALSO RESULT IN FLOODING IN AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA PRONE TO SUCH FLOODING...CLhOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS EVENING AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER ADVISORIES. GIORDANO/PALKO/KOHLHAGEN/FRAZIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 118 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.