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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 18, 1996Venango County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 18, 1996, 7:17 PM EST for Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 7 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
Jan 18, 1996, 7:17 PM EST (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 1996, 2:15 AM EST
In force
7 hr
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 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 682 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
682 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1061 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
Jan 18, 10:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZLawrence6 hr
Jan 19, 2:00 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZVenango6 hr
Jan 19, 4:58 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette, Washington, Westmoreland6 hr
Jan 19, 4:58 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny, Beaver6 hr
Jan 19, 5:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Venango6 hr
Jan 19, 5:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZIndiana6 hr
Jan 19, 5:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZLawrence, Mercer6 hr
Jan 19, 6:53 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZVenango4 hr
Jan 19, 10:02 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBeaver, Butler6 hr
Jan 19, 10:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZIndiana, Westmoreland6 hr
Jan 19, 10:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette6 hr
Jan 19, 10:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson6 hr
Jan 19, 10:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny, Greene, Washington5 hr
Jan 19, 10:43 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZLawrence, Mercer, Venango5 hr
Jan 19, 3:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong, Butler, Fayette, Indiana, Westmoreland6 hr
Jan 19, 3:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBeaver, Lawrence6 hr
Jan 19, 3:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Forest, Jefferson6 hr
Jan 19, 3:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZVenango6 hr
Jan 19, 3:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe6 hr
Jan 19, 3:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll, Columbiana, Jefferson6 hr
Jan 19, 3:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Noble6 hr
Jan 19, 3:47 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Tuscarawas3 hr
Jan 19, 6:36 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Tuscarawas3 hr
Jan 19, 9:36 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll, Columbiana, Jefferson3 hr
Jan 19, 9:36 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble3 hr
Jan 19, 9:36 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Harrison, Monroe3 hr
Jan 19, 9:36 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas3 hr
Jan 19, 4:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston, Tucker6 hr
Jan 19, 4:58 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarshall, Ohio6 hr
Jan 19, 4:58 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBrooke, Hancock6 hr
Jan 19, 5:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia, Wetzel6 hr
Jan 19, 10:30 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston, Tucker6 hr
Jan 19, 10:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia5 hr
Jan 19, 10:49 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarshall, Wetzel5 hr
Jan 19, 10:49 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBrooke, Hancock5 hr
Jan 19, 10:49 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZOhio5 hr
Jan 19, 3:58 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston, Tucker6 hr

Nearby

Flash 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.