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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 28, 1994Beaver County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 28, 1994, 9:35 AM EST for Beaver County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 28, 1994, 9:35 AM EST (14:35 UTC)
Expired
Jan 28, 1994, 4:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Beaver County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 12:00Z on 1994-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1994-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 28, 8:28 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene, Washington8 hr
Jan 28, 12:15 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZWestmoreland10 hr
Jan 28, 3:32 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong6 hr
Jan 28, 4:51 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny5 hr
Jan 28, 5:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZButler5 hr
Jan 28, 6:11 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Jefferson4 hr
Jan 27, 11:46 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarshall, Ohio4 hr
Jan 28, 4:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBrooke, Hancock, Ohio8 hr
Jan 28, 4:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarshall8 hr

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.