Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1993, 4:36 PM EST for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 1993, 4:36 PM EST (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1993, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Mar 4, 10:57 AM EST, 5 hours 39 minutes before
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PAZ015-WVZ001-050500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 300 PM EST THU MAR 4 1993 ...WHEELING CREEK RISING... HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING WHICH FELL OVER SATURATED SOIL IS CAUSING WHEELING CREEK TO RISE RAPIDLY. AT 300 PM THE STAGE READING ON WHEELING CREEK AT ELM GROVE WAS 4.4 FEET AND RISING. FLOOD STAGE IS 7 FEET. WHEELING CREEK IS EXPECTED TO
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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.