Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1995, 2:25 AM EST for Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1995, 2:25 AM EST (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1995, 6:30 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Preston County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 160727 FFWPIT WVC077-161130- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 225 AM EST THU FEB 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...PRESTON COUNTY PRESTON COUNTY OES HAS RECEIVED REPORTS OF 3 TO 4 FEET OF WATER OVER COUNTY ROUTE 51 APPROXIMATELY 4 MILES SOUTH OF TERRA ALTA PRODUCED BY FLOODING ON THE THE SALTLICK CREEK. A COMBINATION OF SNOW MELT AND ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY HAS PRODUCED THIS FLOODING. OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE HIGH AND OTHER FLOODING IN THE COUNTY MAY OCCUR. EXTREME CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN TRAVELLING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT 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, Feb 15, 9:14 PM EST, 5 hours 11 minutes before
PAZ016-160600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 915 PM EST WED FEB 15 1995 THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED TO ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK IN MOST AREAS OF THE COUNTY. RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE ENDING AROUND MIDNIGHT. EVEN SO...WATCH OUT FOR SOME SLIPPERY SPOTS ON SECONDARY ROADS AS THERE COULD STILL BE ICE IN SOME AREAS.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 9:15 PM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
PAZ016-160600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 915 PM EST WED FEB 15 1995 THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED TO ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK IN MOST AREAS OF THE COUNTY. RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE ENDING AROUND MIDNIGHT. EVEN SO...WATCH OUT FOR SOME SLIPPERY SPOTS ON SECONDARY ROADS AS THERE COULD STILL BE ICE IN SOME AREAS.
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 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.