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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 4, 2001Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia; Garrett County, Maryland

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2001, 8:05 PM EDT for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia; Garrett County, Maryland. It was in force for 115 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: Aug 4, 2001, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2001, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Garrett County, MD, Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 2214 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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 
WGUS51 KPBZ 050005
FFWPBZ

MDC023-WVC077-093-050200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
805 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GARRETT COUNTY IN MARYLAND
  PRESTON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA
  TUCKER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 8:00 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED
  OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS.
  IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF GARRETT COUNTY...AND AT THE JUNCTION OF
  PRESTON COUNTY...TUCKER COUNTY...AND GARRETT COUNTY. THE STORMS
  ARE MOVING SLOWLY AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODS.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER 
COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED 
QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. CAMPERS SHOULD WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING
WATER. MOVE AWAY FROM THE STREAMS TOWARD 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 Aug 4, 3:37 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:37 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
337 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2001

HAD SOME PROBLEMS GENERATING PRODUCT SO WL BE VERY BRIEF. IN THE
SHORT TERM...SCATTERED TSTMS MAY PRODUCE ISOLD AREAS OF SGFNT
RAINFALL EXTRM SW PA...NRN WV...FM LATE THIS AFTN THRU ERY EVE IN
WARM SECTOR AHD OF FNTL ZONE. PWS FCST TO INCR TO 1.7 INCHES...TDS
LOWER 70S IN INSTBY AXIS THIS AREA. A NUMBER OF OLD OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES WL FOCUS THE ACTVTY...BUT NO WIDESPREAD FORCING. FNT
PUSHES SLOWLY SOUTH OVERNGT...THEN SLOWLY NWD BY MONDAY. SUNDAY WL
BE BEST DAY...THEN A RETURN OF SHWRS AND TSRA BY MON AFTN. EXTENDED
STILL INDCTS MORE HEAT THRU MID WEEK...WITH FNTL ZONE ACROSS AREA BY
LATE WEEK.

FCSTID = 12

.PBZ...
MD...NONE.
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2001 Flash Flood Warnings in Maryland, 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.