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Flash Flood Warning 142, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 14, 1996Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1996, 7:49 PM EDT for Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 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
Jun 14, 1996, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1996, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Preston County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 278 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 9:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer56 min
Jun 13, 9:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZLawrence49 min
Jun 14, 12:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer64 min
Jun 14, 1:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler61 min
Jun 14, 2:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMercer3 hr
Jun 14, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana26 min
Jun 14, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland67 min
Jun 14, 7:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette3 hr
Jun 13, 9:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana56 min
Jun 14, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll61 min
Jun 14, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana61 min
Jun 14, 5:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll3 hr
Jun 14, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston57 min
Jun 14, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston49 min
Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston3 hr
Jun 14, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston57 min
Jun 14, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall40 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.