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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 15, 1998Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1998, 3:15 AM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. 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
Jun 15, 1998, 3:15 AM EDT (07:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1998, 7:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Tucker County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 1998-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
881 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 150718
FFWPIT
WVC093-151100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVIATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
315 AM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TUCKER COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 700 AM EDT.

* AT 310 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
  AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHERN TUCKER COUNTY... MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* RAPIDLY RISING WATER LEVELS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG PLEASANT RUN...
  HADDIX RUN NEAR MOORE AND CLOVER RUN NEAR ROUTE 38 ACROSS THE
  RIVER FROM SAINT GEORGE.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROAD!

.END/RSD

 
F

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.