Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 1995, 3:17 PM EDT for Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1995, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Armstrong County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 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 251917 RRA FFWPIT PAC005-252015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 317 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ARMSTRONG COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTOSM OVER SOUTHWEST ARMSTRONG COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY NORTH AT ONLY 5 MPH. EXPECT TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WITH THIS STORM WHICH WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. TAKE COVER THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 9:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 67 min |
| Jun 24, 9:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 1:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 3:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 68 min |
| Jun 25, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 92 min |
| Jun 25, 6:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 116 min |
| Jun 25, 6:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 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.