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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 21, 1995Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1995, 5:05 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1995, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Tuscarawas County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3253 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3253 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 212108
FFWPIT
OHC157-212300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
505 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...TUSCARAWAS COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER TUSCARAWAS COUNTY AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING
HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 700 PM. STREET FLOODING IS REPORTED IN NEW
PHILADELPHIA.
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 11:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum40 min
Jun 21, 5:49 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey3 hr
Jun 21, 5:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey3 hr
Jun 21, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas63 min
Jun 21, 3:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas2 hr
Jun 21, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll67 min
Jun 21, 3:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas85 min
Jun 21, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas85 min
Jun 21, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton63 min
Jun 21, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana67 min
Jun 21, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZColumbiana41 min
Jun 21, 6:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZColumbiana3 hr
Jun 21, 6:55 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZCarroll35 min
Jun 21, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas57 min
Jun 21, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson44 min
Jun 21, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.