Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 1995, 9:47 PM EDT for Clarion County, Forest County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1995, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clarion County, PA, Forest County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 830 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 080149 FFWPIT PAC053-031-080400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 947 PM EDT WED JUN 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...FOREST COUNTY. IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...CLARION COUNTY. AT 945 PM RADAR SHOWED ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN IN THE LAST 3 HOURS. FOREST COUNTY HAD OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER THIS EVENING. THIS RAIN...AND MORE SHOWERS BEHIND IT...WILL BRING MANY STREAMS TO BANKFUL OR HIGHER. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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, 4 hours 21 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, 4 hours 21 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, 8:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029>032-080230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 828 PM EDT WED JUN 7 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...WATCH #564...HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE COUNTIES IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THE SEVERE STORMS FROM EARLIER THIS EVENING HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAINS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHEAST OHIO. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL CROSS THE PITTSBURGH AREA BETWEEN 9PM AND MIDNIGHT. INTENSITY TRENDS OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED THROUGH THE EVENING FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL WATCHES OR WARNINGS. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE UPDATES. PM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 12:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 4 hr |
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.