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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 7, 1995Forest County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT for Forest County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 75 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Forest County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 802 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 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
802 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 7, 5:26 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029>032-072330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
526 PM EDT WED JUN 7 1995

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR MUCH OF
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...NORTH AND EAST OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH.

IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

ARMSTRONG CLARION FAYETTE FOREST INDIANA JEFFERSON VENANAGO WESTMORELAND

A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR STORMS WHICH MAY
PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES INTO YOU
AREA PLEASE MOVE INDOORS. EVEN IF THE STORM IS NOT SEVERE...LIGHTNING IS
DEADLY...SO AVOID IT TO PRESERVE YOUR LIFE.

M.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

DUNHAM
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:26 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029>032-072330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
526 PM EDT WED JUN 7 1995

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR MUCH OF
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...NORTH AND EAST OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH.

IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

ARMSTRONG CLARION FAYETTE FOREST INDIANA JEFFERSON VENANAGO WESTMORELAND

A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR STORMS WHICH MAY
PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES INTO YOU
AREA PLEASE MOVE INDOORS. EVEN IF THE STORM IS NOT SEVERE...LIGHTNING IS
DEADLY...SO AVOID IT TO PRESERVE YOUR LIFE.

M.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

DUNHAM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland61 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.