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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2003, 8:14 PM EDT for Hancock County, West Virginia; Beaver County, Pennsylvania. 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 8, 2003, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2003, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Beaver County, PA, Hancock County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 090015 FFWPBZ PAC007-WVC029-090315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 814 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BEAVER COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA HANCOCK COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 814 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED ALMOST ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR. EXPECT STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE RAPIDLY. <<CALL TO ACTION>>BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KPBZ 090235 FFSPBZ PAC007-WVC029-090330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1035 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HANCOCK AND BEAVER COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 8:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 10:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 48 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2003Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.