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Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 9, 1996Belmont County, Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1996, 12:02 AM EDT for Belmont County, Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio. 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
May 9, 1996, 12:02 AM EDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1996, 3:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Belmont County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 1996-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 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
May 9, 3:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWashington4 hr
May 9, 7:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Muskingum, Noble4 hr
May 9, 7:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton4 hr
May 9, 8:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe3 hr
May 9, 12:54 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBrooke2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.