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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 5, 2008Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood warning at Mar 5, 2008, 6:08 AM EST for Preston County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 5, 2008, 11:57 AM EST. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2008, 6:08 AM EST (11:08 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2008, 11:57 AM EST
Expired: Mar 5, 2008, 12:57 PM EST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Flood severity: Minor

County Preston County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 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.

The river

Written for the forecast point Cheat River at Rowlesburg (ROWW2).

Action stage: 12.5 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 22 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 0307020015, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 5, 6:05 AM EST, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 6:05 AM EST, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 5, 5:10 AM EST, 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 5, 1:54 AM EST, 4 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 5, 2:30 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 8:24 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Lawrence and 1 more	6 hr
Mar 4, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	35 min
Mar 4, 9:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	39 min
Mar 4, 10:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	44 min
Mar 5, 2:27 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Lawrence	6 hr
Mar 4, 7:29 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe and 3 more	6 hr
Mar 4, 8:17 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	12 hr
Mar 5, 1:26 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 5 more	6 hr
Mar 5, 4:01 AM EST	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	62 hr
Mar 5, 6:05 AM EST	River Flood Watch	PBZ	Tuscarawas	13 hr
Mar 5, 7:31 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 5 more	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.