Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 5, 2001Marion County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2001, 5:04 PM EDT for Marion County, West Virginia. It was in force for 116 min. 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 5, 2001, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 12:00Z on 2001-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 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 12:00Z on 2001-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPBZ 052106
FFWPBZ
WVC049-052300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
504 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 504 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL 
AMOUNTS WELL OVER AN INCH THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT 
OFFICIALS HAVE ALSO REPORTED POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING AND SOME FLOODED 
ROADWAYS.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...RIVESVILLE...MONONGAH...
  GRANT TOWN AND BARRACKVILLE...

<<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE
WATER CnOVERS 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZOhio42 min
Jul 5, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston58 min
Jul 5, 5:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.