Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1993, 7:25 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, 7:25 PM EST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1993, 10:00 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 00:00Z, 0.4 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
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 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 050026 FFWPIT WVC051-050300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 725 PM EST THU MAR 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS CONTINUED THE FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE ...MARSHALL COUNTY FISH CREEK AND MIDDLE GRAVE CREEK IN MARSHALL COUNTY CONTINUE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. COUNTY ROAD 74 IS CLOSED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE 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, Mar 4, 3:07 PM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 6:12 PM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PAZ001>006-013>015-WVZ001-050800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT- WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 600 PM EST THU MAR 4 1993 ...FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 745 PM FOR MARSHALL COUNTY WV... ...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR TONIGHT FOR NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...THE LAUREL MOUNTAINS AND SOUTH CENTRAL AREAS... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA... ...HIGH WIND WARNING DISCONTINUED... A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM TONIGHT FOR MARSHALL COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIAL REPORTED SOME CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED AREA. A WINTER STORM WARNING CONTINUES TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...THE LAUREL MOUNTAINS AND SOUTH CENTRAL AREA. THIS INCLUDES COMMUNITIES SUCH AS ERIE...BRADFORD... DUBOIS...STATE COLLEGE...JOHNSTOWN...BUTLER AND MERCER. SNOW AMOUNTS RANGING FROM 6 TO 10 INCHES WILL FALL IN THE WARNED AREA OVERNIGHT. HEAVIEST AMOUNTS WILL BE IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS WITH UP TO 10 INCHES...IN THE LAUREL MOUNTAINS 4 TO 7 INCHES...WITH 6 TO 8 INCHES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL AREA COMMUNITIES SUCH AS ALTOONA AND BEDFORD WILL RECEIVE BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED THROUGHOUT THE MOUNTAIN AREAS OF PENNSYLVANIA. EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON WINDS GUSTED TO 64 MPH AT THE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY IN CENTRE COUNTY. 50 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN FRANKLIN COUNTY...WHILE ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT REPORTED 48 MPH WINDS. A SNOW ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR SO6UTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA TONIGHT FOR 3 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW. DRIVING CONDITIONS WILL BE HAZARDOUS TONIGHT THROUGHOUT THE AREA. PALKO/HIGGINS/GIORDANO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 9:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.