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Flash Flood Warning 228, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 19, 1996Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1996, 4:57 PM EDT for Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. 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
Jul 19, 1996, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1996, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, PA, Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 1996-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1573 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 1996-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 259 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
1573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
10.5

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The text

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

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

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 12:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029>032-192200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1210 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996

...TORNADO WATCH TIL 6PM...

THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 6PM IN WESTERN PA

CLARION         ELK             JEFFERSON       MERCER
VENANGO         ALLEGHENY       ARMSTRONG       BEAVER
BUTLER          FAYETTE         GREENE          INDIANA
LAWRENCE        WASHINrGTON      WESTMORELAND

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE
IN AND CLOSE TO THIS AREA.

KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 4:40 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 10:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene3 hr
Jul 18, 11:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene52 min
Jul 18, 11:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny, Westmoreland3 hr
Jul 19, 1:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene3 hr
Jul 19, 1:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Mercer, Venango3 hr
Jul 19, 3:22 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZJefferson3 hr
Jul 19, 4:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Mercer, Venango2 hr
Jul 19, 5:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Jefferson, Venango82 min
Jul 19, 5:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClarion, Jefferson, Venango82 min
Jul 19, 6:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Indiana, Jefferson4 hr
Jul 19, 6:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMercer, Venango4 hr
Jul 19, 7:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette, Greene3 hr
Jul 19, 9:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZIndiana, Jefferson6 hr
Jul 19, 9:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Venango6 hr
Jul 19, 9:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMercer6 hr
Jul 19, 11:48 AM EDTTornado WarningPBZIndiana57 min
Jul 19, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette, Greene51 min
Jul 19, 2:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette3 hr
Jul 19, 2:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene3 hr
Jul 19, 3:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Venango6 hr
Jul 19, 3:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZIndiana, Jefferson6 hr
Jul 18, 10:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont3 hr
Jul 19, 12:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble52 min
Jul 19, 1:02 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMonroe, Noble43 min
Jul 19, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe29 min
Jul 19, 2:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe3 hr
Jul 19, 4:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe6 hr
Jul 18, 10:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonongalia3 hr
Jul 19, 1:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston3 hr
Jul 19, 10:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston, Tucker4 hr
Jul 19, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonongalia49 min
Jul 19, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1996Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.