Alert archive / West Virginia / River Flood Warnings in 2010
River Flood Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood warning at Jan 25, 2010, 8:25 AM EST for Preston County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 25, 2010, 4:19 PM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2010, 8:25 AM EST (13:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2010, 4:19 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2010, 8:09 AM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- 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 13:29 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 Jan 25, 3:05 AM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 3:05 AM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 9:54 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Fayette | 14 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:54 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 14 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:54 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland | 14 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:54 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny | 14 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:54 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny | 14 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:54 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson | 14 hr |
| Jan 25, 7:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jan 25, 7:51 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Jefferson | 9 hr |
| Jan 25, 7:56 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 18 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 32 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 26 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland | 26 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson | 19 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Westmoreland | 5 hr |
| Jan 25, 5:16 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 8 hr |
| Jan 25, 5:30 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 8 hr |
| Jan 25, 5:38 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 13 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:22 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Belmont | 22 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:09 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Ohio | 6 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:21 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Tucker | 6 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:22 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Marshall | 22 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:54 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Monongalia | 7 hr |
| Jan 25, 1:42 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.