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Flash Flood Warning 239, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 8, 1996Monroe County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1996, 3:03 PM EDT for Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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
Aug 8, 1996, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1387 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
1387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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
Aug 8, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson49 min
Aug 8, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer51 min
Aug 8, 1:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMercer4 hr
Aug 8, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZVenango58 min
Aug 8, 2:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler, Clarion66 min
Aug 8, 2:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZForest66 min
Aug 8, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong67 min
Aug 8, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson68 min
Aug 8, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Beaver69 min
Aug 8, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland68 min
Aug 8, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny21 min
Aug 8, 4:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny3 hr
Aug 8, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene44 min
Aug 8, 5:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWestmoreland3 hr
Aug 8, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington12 min
Aug 8, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette69 min
Aug 8, 6:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette, Greene4 hr
Aug 8, 7:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny3 hr
Aug 8, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas50 min
Aug 8, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe59 min
Aug 8, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum69 min
Aug 8, 3:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZNoble3 hr
Aug 8, 6:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe3 hr
Aug 8, 5:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker4 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.