Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2005, 4:16 PM EDT for Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia; Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports 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
- Jul 5, 2005, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2005, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jefferson County, OH, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:20 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Irondale, OH | MUD SLIDE. |
| Jul 5, 4:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 S Weirton, WV | STREET FLOODING |
| Jul 5, 4:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Weirton, WV | STREET FLOODING |
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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KPBZ 052018
FFWPBZ
OHC081-WVC009-029-052315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
416 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN OHIO
BROOKE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA
HANCOCK COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 409 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS. THE HARDEST HIT AREAS WERE
STEUBENVILLE AND RICHMOND IN NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY OHIO AND THE
WEIRTON AREA OF HANCOCK COUNTY AND NORTHERN BROOKE COUNTY WEST
VIRGINIA.
<<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.
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.
LAT...LON 4060 8052 4042 8054 4030 8054 4030 8064
4034 8085 4056 8085
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2005Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.