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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 8, 1995Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1995, 12:20 AM EDT for Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 12:20 AM EDT (04:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Jefferson County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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

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, 8:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 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
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 9:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Forest2 hr
Jun 7, 11:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton67 min
Jun 8, 12:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Muskingum61 min
Jun 8, 1:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont17 min
Jun 8, 1:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe56 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.