Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 1995, 10:55 PM EDT for Fayette County, Greene County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1995, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 2889 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 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 160300 FFWPIT PAC051-059-063-160500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1055 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...FAYETTE COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY...INDIANA COUNTY WEATHER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW SEVERE STORMS WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OVER GREENE FAYETTE AND INDIANA COUNTIES. THIS THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND LARGE HAIL AND FLASH FLOODS WILL CONTINUE TIL 100 AM. BETTER THAN 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND CONTINUED DOWNPOURS CAN CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. 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 LITtTLE ADVANCE WARNING. HEAVY RAINS CAN QUICKLY CAUSE FLOODING. DO NOT CROSS WHERE WATER COVERS YOUR PATH ...AS MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Lawrence | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Butler | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 116 min |
| Jul 15, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 116 min |
| Jul 15, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 113 min |
| Jul 15, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 8:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Butler, Venango | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 42 min |
| Jul 15, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 42 min |
| Jul 15, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 40 min |
| Jul 15, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Westmoreland | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 10:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Butler, Mercer | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Washington | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 10:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 10:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 10:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.