Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1995, 6:11 AM EDT for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 6:11 AM EDT (10:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 2103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 141017 FFWPIT OHC031-119-WVC077-093-141415- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 611 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...COSHOCTON COUNTY...MUSKINGUM COUNTY IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...PRESTON COUNTY...TUCKER COUNTY CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO BEGIN IN THESE COUNTIES THAT WERE HARDHIT BY PREDAWN HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE STORMS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.r NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 58 min |
| May 14, 6:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 3 hr |
| May 14, 7:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 2 hr |
| May 14, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 2 hr |
| May 14, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 2 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.