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Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 11, 1995Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1995, 4:03 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 1995, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Tucker County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Aug 11, 11:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 11:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 1:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 1:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 1:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 11:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Venango	67 min
Aug 11, 11:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Butler, Clarion	62 min
Aug 11, 11:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Jefferson	62 min
Aug 11, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler	45 min
Aug 11, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	55 min
Aug 11, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	63 min
Aug 11, 1:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Butler	118 min
Aug 11, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	33 min
Aug 11, 1:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	2 hr
Aug 11, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	67 min
Aug 11, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Washington	46 min
Aug 11, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	53 min
Aug 11, 2:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	3 hr
Aug 11, 2:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Washington	116 min
Aug 11, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	116 min
Aug 11, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	39 min
Aug 11, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	25 min
Aug 11, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	38 min
Aug 11, 3:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	3 hr
Aug 11, 3:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont	2 hr
Aug 11, 3:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Harrison	2 hr
Aug 11, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Harrison	2 hr
Aug 11, 3:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe	2 hr
Aug 11, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	2 hr
Aug 11, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas	66 min
Aug 11, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	37 min
Aug 11, 5:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	2 hr
Aug 11, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	2 hr
Aug 11, 6:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	86 min
Aug 11, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	86 min
Aug 11, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Ohio	26 min
Aug 11, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	45 min
Aug 11, 2:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Marshall	3 hr
Aug 11, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke	49 min
Aug 11, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monongalia, Preston	58 min
Aug 11, 3:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Marion	2 hr
Aug 11, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion	2 hr
Aug 11, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tucker	117 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.