Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 6:16 PM EDT for Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mercer County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 292216 FFWPIT PAC085-292315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 616 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...MERCER COUNTY RADAR INDICATES THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN SOUTHWEST MERCER COUNTY AROUND THE WEST MIDDLESEX TO FARRELL PAREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 68 min |
| Jun 29, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Washington | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 6:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 59 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.