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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 10, 2000Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2000, 10:49 PM EDT for Preston 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
Jul 10, 2000, 10:49 PM EDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2000, 1:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Preston County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 2000-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 135 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 2000-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 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
135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 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 
WGUS51 KPBZ 110250
FFWPBZ
WVC077-110545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1049 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PRESTON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 145 AM EDT

* AT 1049 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED SCATTERED FLOODING
ACROSS THE AREA.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...TERRA ALTA AND
  ROWLESBURG...

<<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW
YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HKIGHER GROUND.

.END

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 9:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.