Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland | 61 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.