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Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 10, 1995Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1995, 2:51 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 1995, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 1995-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 251 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 6:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston119 min
Aug 10, 7:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion118 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.