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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 7, 1995Clarion County, Forest County, Pennsylvania

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 830 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 12:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZJefferson4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.