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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 5, 2001Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2001, 5:57 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 5, 2001, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 9:00 PM 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 12:00Z, 10.0 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPBZ 052200
FFWPBZ

WVC077-060100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 557 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED WELL OVER 
AN INCH OF RAINFALL HAD FALLEN NEAR NEWBURG SINCE 5 PM. PUBLIC  
REPORTS ALSO INDICATED THAT RT 92 WAS IMPASSABLE NEAR NEWBURG. 
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY INCREASE THE THREAT OF FLOODING.

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

<<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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 5, 4:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 4:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
417 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

FRONTAL BNDRY MOVING QUICKLY SEWD ATTM AND WILL PUSH S OF M/D LINE
THIS EVE AND S OF XTRME SRN CNTYS THEREAFTER. OLD MRNG OUTFLOW BNDRYS
ALONG M/D LINE CNTYS MAY PROVIDE FOCUS MECHANISM THIS EVENING FOR
SOME HEAVY RAINFALL SO FFA CONTD TIL 8PM.
SFC HI PRES WILL MOVE IN AND PROVIDE PLSNT FRI FOR REGION.
MESOETA MDL HINTS TWD A SHRT/WV DRIVING SEWD LATE FRI NGT/EARLY SAT MRNG
INTO WRN SXNS CWA...FOR TIME BEING THOUGH WILL INDICATE ONLY PCDY SKIES
THOUGH WAA GETS WELL UNDERWAY DURING FRI NGT. INTRODUCE CHC POPS SAT.
GUID TEMPS LOOK OKAY.

.PBZ...
MD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 800 PM EDT THURSDAY FOR ZONE MDZ001.

OH...NONE.
PA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 800 PM EDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES
PAZ031>032.

WV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 800 PM EDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES WVZ004...
WVZ012...WVZ021>023...WVZ041.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029-
030-WVZ001>003-052000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1202 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

...SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...

STORMS ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON MAY CONTAIN
SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH OR SO...AND FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF UP TO AN INCH
OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS OR
TRAVELING ON THE ROADWAYS.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 3:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
313 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
S
1130 AM    SALEM                     OH
07/05/01   COLUMBIANA                     3/4 INCH HAIL.

0145 PM    NEW ALEXANDREA            PA
07/05/01   WESTMORELAND                   TREES DOWN.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
407 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1130 AM    SALEM                     OH
07/05/01   COLUMBIANA                     3/4 INCH HAIL.

0145 PM    NEW ALEXANDREA            PA
07/05/01   WESTMORELAND                   TREES DOWN.

0344 PM    MOUNT PLEASANT            PA   WIND DAMAGE
07/05/01   WESTMORELAND                   TREES DOWN IN CUMMINGWOOD
                                          PARK REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jul 5, 5:25 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
525 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0515 AM    FAIRMONT                  WV   FLOOD
07/05/01   MARION                         RT 19 FLOODED. SMALL
                                          STREAM FLOODING REPORTED
                                          THROUGH OUT COUNTY.
 )                                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

AMS

Local storm report, Jul 5, 5:50 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
550 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    MASONTOWN                 WV   WIND DAMAGE
07/05/01   PRESTON                        SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Ohio	42 min
Jul 5, 5:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Marion	116 min
Jul 5, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston	58 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2001 Every 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.