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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 24, 1995Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1995, 8:49 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1995, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1995, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Muskingum County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 1995-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 613 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 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 250048
FFWPIT
OHC119-250245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
849 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...MUSKINGUM COUNTY
 
RADAR SHOWED SLOW MOVING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL
MUSKINGUM COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR SAFETY GO TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. HEAVY RAINS CAN
QUICKLY CAUSE FLOODING. DO NOT CROSS WHERE WATER COVERS YOUR PATH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum55 min
Jun 24, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum116 min
Jun 25, 1:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZColumbiana3 hr
Jun 25, 5:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZHarrison2 hr

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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.