Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 26, 1994, 12:05 PM EST for Marshall County, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 1994, 12:05 PM EST (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1994, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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, Jan 26, 8:55 AM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
WVZ003-004-261700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 900 AM EST WED JAN 26 1994 ...FLOOD WATCH DISCONTINUED FOR THE WHEELING CREEK... THE FLOOD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR AREAS ALONG THE WHEELING CREEK IN MARSHALL AND OHIO COUNTIES. MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED JUST UPSTREAM OF THE JUNIOR STREET BRIDGE IN ELM GROVE DUE TO AN ICE JAM...BUT THE ICE JAM HAS BROKEN AND THE WATER LEVELS HAVE DROPPED. ICE IS FLOWING FREELY DOWN THE CREEK. NO FURTHER FLOODING IS EXPECTED.
Special weather statement, Jan 26, 9:00 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
WVZ003-004-261700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 900 AM EST WED JAN 26 1994 ...FLOOD WATCH DISCONTINUED FOR THE WHEELING CREEK... THE FLOOD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR AREAS ALONG THE WHEELING CREEK IN MARSHALL AND OHIO COUNTIES. MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED JUST UPSTREAM OF THE JUNIOR STREET BRIDGE IN ELM GROVE DUE TO AN ICE JAM...BUT THE ICE JAM HAS BROKEN AND THE WATER LEVELS HAVE DROPPED. ICE IS FLOWING FREELY DOWN THE CREEK. NO FURTHER FLOODING IS EXPECTED.
Special weather statement, Jan 26, 11:14 AM EST, 51 minutes before
WVZ003-004-271200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WINTER STORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1115 AM EST WED JAN 26 1994 ...WINTER STORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THURSDAY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...SNOW AND SLEET WILL BEGIN ACROSS SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA WITH SNOW SPREADING ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA BY THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF THURSDAY. THE CAUSE OF THIS MIX IS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS OF THE UNITED STATES THAT WILL TRACK NORTHEASTWARD TODAY BRINGING A WARM FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO AND CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. THIS WARM FRONT WILL USHER WARMER AIR INTO THE REGION BY LATE MORNING THURSDAY KEEPING THE CHANCE OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN OVER THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL PERSIST ACROSS NORTHERN AND MOUNTAIN SECTIONS OF THE STATE WITH SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE. THE COMBINATION OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN COULD MAKE TRAVEL ON THURSDAY VERY HAZARDOUS AT BEST...PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAINS AND OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE. SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN COULD PRODUCE A GLAZE OF ICE ON ROADWAYS AND SIDEWALKS ALONG WITH TREES AND POWER LINES AND COULD CAUSE POWER OUTAGES. LATER TONIGHT OR EARLY THURSDAY MORNING THIS WATCH MAY BE UPGRADED TO A WINTER STORM WARNING DUE TO ICE ACCUMULATIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE WEATHER CHANNEL FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR STATEMENTS ON THIS WINTER WEATHER. FLH/WJD
Special weather statement, Jan 26, 11:15 AM EST, 50 minutes before
WVZ003-004-271200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WINTER STORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1115 AM EST WED JAN 26 1994 ...WINTER STORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THURSDAY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...SNOW AND SLEET WILL BEGIN ACROSS SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA WITH SNOW SPREADING ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA BY THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF THURSDAY. THE CAUSE OF THIS MIX IS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS OF THE UNITED STATES THAT WILL TRACK NORTHEASTWARD TODAY BRINGING A WARM FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO AND CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. THIS WARM FRONT WILL USHER WARMER AIR INTO THE REGION BY LATE MORNING THURSDAY KEEPING THE CHANCE OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN OVER THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL PERSIST ACROSS NORTHERN AND MOUNTAIN SECTIONS OF THE STATE WITH SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE. THE COMBINATION OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN COULD MAKE TRAVEL ON THURSDAY VERY HAZARDOUS AT BEST...PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAINS AND OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE. SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN COULD PRODUCE A GLAZE OF ICE ON ROADWAYS AND SIDEWALKS ALONG WITH TREES AND POWER LINES AND COULD CAUSE POWER OUTAGES. LATER TONIGHT OR EARLY THURSDAY MORNING THIS WATCH MAY BE UPGRADED TO A WINTER STORM WARNING DUE TO ICE ACCUMULATIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE WEATHER CHANNEL FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR STATEMENTS ON THIS WINTER WEATHER. FLH/WJD
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.