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Flash Flood Warning 232, 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, 10:45 PM EDT for Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 11 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, 10:45 PM EDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 1996, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 11 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 02:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Local storm report, Jul 19, 7:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 9:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Venango	12 hr
Jul 19, 9:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Indiana, Jefferson	12 hr
Jul 19, 10:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe	11 hr

Nearby

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