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Flash Flood Warning 255, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 16, 1996Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1996, 1:54 PM EDT for Preston County, Tucker 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
Aug 16, 1996, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 346 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 15, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette, Westmoreland65 min
Aug 15, 8:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe2 hr
Aug 15, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe2 hr
Aug 15, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston53 min

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.