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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 14, 1995Marion County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1995, 6:48 AM EDT for Marion County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 6:48 AM EDT (10:48 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 9:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 141052
FFWPIT
WVC049-141345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
648 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING CAN CAUSE FLOODING TO BEGIN IN THIS
COUNTY WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN HARDHIT WITH HEAVY RAIN SINCE THE PREDAWN
HOURS.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS BRIDGES OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 5:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston, Tucker58 min
May 14, 6:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston, Tucker4 hr
May 14, 7:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonongalia2 hr
May 14, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker2 hr
May 14, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion2 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.