Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 253, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1996, 6:18 PM EDT for Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 117 min. 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 15, 1996, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Venango County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 47 min |
| Aug 15, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Forest, Venango | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 42 min |
| Aug 15, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland | 71 min |
| Aug 15, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 71 min |
| Aug 15, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Noble | 47 min |
| Aug 15, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Aug 15, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Harrison | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 29 min |
| Aug 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Harrison, Tuscarawas | 117 min |
| Aug 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 60 min |
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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.