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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 10, 1995Marion County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1995, 7:32 PM EDT for Marion County, West Virginia. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 1995, 7:32 PM EDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 102334
FFWPIT
WVC049-110130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
732 PM EDT THU AUG 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
WEATHER RADAR SHOWED TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER EASTERN MARION COUNTY EAST OF
FAIRMONT. FLASH FLOODING CAN RESULT FROM THIS HEAVY RAIN.
 
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 2:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker3 hr
Aug 10, 6:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston119 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.