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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 4:58 AM EST for Fayette County, Washington County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1996, 4:58 AM EST (09:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1996, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 682 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1061 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 190959 FFWPIT PAC003-007-051-059-125-129-WVC009-029-051-069-191600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 458 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ALLEGHENY COUNTY...BEAVER COUNTY...FAYETTE COUNTY ...GREENE COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY...WESTMORELAND COUNTY IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE ...BROOKE COUNTY...HANCOCK COUNTY...MARSHALL COUNTY ...OHIO COUNTY ONE-HALF INCH TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNING COUNTIES OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. THIS RAINFALL COMBINED WITH MELTING SNOW WILL BRING SOME STREAMS AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY OCCUR DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE THE RAIN CHANGES TO SNOW. BE CAREFUL AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODS. IF YOU GET ANY INDICATION THAT FLOODS ARE APPROACHING...QUICKLY MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLNOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 18, 11:39 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1135PM EST THU JAN 18 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
800 PM LATROBE PA WIND DAMAGE
01/18/96 WESTMORELAND 65-70 MPH WIND/TREE DAMAGE
820 PM NEW STANTON PA WIND DAMAGE
01/18/96 WESTMORELAND ROOF BLOWN OFF BUSINESS
POWER LINES DOWN.
825 PM ROSTRAVER PA WIND DAMAGE
01/18/96 WESTMORELAND TREES DOWN
830 PM UNIONTOWN PA WIND DAMAGE
01/18/96 FAYETTE TREES DOWN.
840 PM CONNELLSVILLE PA WIND DAMAGE
01/18/96 FAYETTE TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
845 PM SEVEN SPRINGS PA WIND DAMAGE
01/18/96 SOMERSET TREES DOWN.
1115 PM EVERSON PA WIND DAMAGE
01/18/96 FAYETTE TREES BLOWN DOWN
SIDING BLOWN OFF HOUSE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 7:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 7 hr |
| Jan 18, 10:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 4:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 5:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Venango | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 5:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 5:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 6:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 10:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 10:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Westmoreland | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 10:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 10:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 10:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Greene, Washington | 5 hr |
| Jan 19, 10:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 5 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Fayette, Indiana, Westmoreland | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 6 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.