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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 29, 2005, 2:53 PM EST for Indiana County, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 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
- Nov 29, 2005, 2:53 PM EST (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2005, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 3:05 PM EST | FLASH FLOOD | Brush Vly, PA | LITTLE BRUSH CREEK FLOODING WHITETAIL LANE. |
| Nov 29, 4:15 PM EST | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Nw Falls Creek, PA | FLOODING ALONG SR830. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 2 storm reports to this flash flood warning; the first came 12 minutes after it went out.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 674 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 291955 FFWPBZ PAC063-065-292300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 253 PM EST TUE NOV 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... INDIANA COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA JEFFERSON COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 600 PM EST * AT 246 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS IN JEFFERSON AND INDIANA COUNTIES. IN JEFFERSON COUNTY...ROUTE 119 WAS FLOODED IN SYKESVILLE. AND STREAMS ARE NEW BANKFULL IN BROOKVILLE. STREAMS IN INDIANA COUNTY ARE RUNNING HIGH AND FLOODING IS LIKELY. 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 4123 7880 4042 7898 4051 7933 4127 7913 $$
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 Nov 29, 2:49 AM EST, 12 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 2:49 AM EST, 12 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 249 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... CDFNT WAS MOVG ACRS THE WRN PERIMETER OF THE CWA AS OF 07Z WITH WIDESPREAD SHRA AND ISOLD TSRA CONTG TO DVLP. WINDY CONDITIONS ALSO CONTG WITH SOME ISOLD GUSTS NR ADV CRITERIA OVR AREAS N OF OUR CWA. LLVL JET CORE PROGGED TO DVLP WELL TO THE NE OVR ERN NY LTR THIS MRNG...SO THREAT OF HIGHWEST WND AND HEAVY RAFALL WL ALSO SHIFT...HENCE NO WND ADVISORY OR FLOOD WATCH WITH FF GUIDANCE NR 2 INCHES. FRONT SHOULD EXIT THE AREA THIS AFTN WITH DECREASING RAFALL AND STEADY TO SLOWLY FALLING TEMPS. SEASONABLY COLDER AIR AND DRIER CONDITIONS WL ADVECT OVR THE AREA WITH SFC HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE BY WED. && .LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY)... NO MAJOR CHANGES TO LONG TERM PDS THIS ISSUANCE WITH NEGATIVELY TILTED TROF PROGGED TO X THE REGION BY WEEKS END...WITH PCPN CHCS AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPS. && .AVIATION... BASED ON RECENT METARS AND NAM FORECAST SOUNDINGS...EXPECT SOUTHEAST WINDS TO GUST TO NEAR 30 KTS UNTIL THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. THE PREFRONTAL BAND OF SHOWERS CAN OCCASIONALLY LOWER CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES INTO THE MVFR RANGE (3SM -SHRA BR OVC020). LOW LEVELS APPEAR TOO STABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. REGARDING THE TIMING OF THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE...USED A BLEND OF NAM AND RUC MODEL RUNS...THAT SLOWED THE EASTWARD MOVEMENT DOWN FROM THE CURRENT SPEED OF 25 KTS. WITH FRONT GOING THROUGH KZZV AT 05Z...THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE WAS TIMED FOR KFKL-KPIT NEAR 13Z AND KDUJ-KMGW MORE LIKE 14Z-15Z. HOWEVER ITS POSSIBLE IT COULD BE SLOWER THAN THAT. POSTFRONTAL CONDITIONS...BASED ON UPWIND METARS AND NAM SOUNDINGS....CAN INCLUDE MVFR CEILINGS (OVC025) DUE TO THE COLD ADVECTION ON DIMINISHING SOUTHWEST WINDS...BUT VISIBILITIES SHOULD BECOME GENERALLY P6SM ONCE THE SHOWERS SUBSIDE. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. && 15/11
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 29, 4:28 AM EST, 10 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 428 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016- 020>023-029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-300930- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON- JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER- VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER- ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-WESTMORELAND-GREENE- FAYETTE-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA- PRESTON-TUCKER- 428 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 11:36 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 5 hr |
Nearby
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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.