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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 5, 2004Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 5, 2004, 1:06 AM EST for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jan 5, 2004, 1:06 AM EST (06:06 UTC)
Expired
Jan 5, 2004, 7:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marshall County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 5, 1:12 AM ESTFLOOD5 E Moundsville, WVTURKEY RUN FLOODED NEAR VIOLA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 00:00Z on 2004-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 353 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
353 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
490 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 050609
FFWPBZ
WVC051-051200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
106 AM EST MON JAN 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 AM EST

* AT 105 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY 
  RAINS MOVING BACK INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST. STREAMS ARE
  SWOLLEN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND WILL OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS AND
  FLOOD.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...CAMERON AND MAJORSVILLE.


<<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.

LAT...LON 4001 8056 3973 8055 3973 8082 4000 8073

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.