Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 2000, 10:47 AM EDT for Garrett County, Maryland; Fayette County, Greene County, Pennsylvania; Marshall County, 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
- Aug 6, 2000, 10:47 AM EDT (14:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Garrett County, MD, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Marshall County, WV, Preston County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPBZ 061449 FFWPBZ MDC023-PAC051-059-WVC051-077-061745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1047 AM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GARRETT COUNTY IN MARYLAND FAYETTE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA GREENE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA MARSHALL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA PRESTON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 1045 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS MOVING ACROSS AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS SUNDAY MORNING. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE STREAMS TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...FRIENDSVILLE...BRUCETON MILLS... WAYNESBURG...REPUBLIC AND CAMERON. <<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 HIGHER GROUND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 10:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 111 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Maryland, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.