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River Flood Advisory 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood advisory at Feb 27, 2011, 10:46 AM EST for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 28, 2011, 5:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2011, 10:46 AM EST (15:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2011, 5:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2011, 3:46 PM EST
- In force
- 6 days
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
County Allegheny County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 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 Ohio River at Pittsburgh (PTTP1).
- Action stage
- 18 ft
- Minor stage
- 22 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 28 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03085152, 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 advisory 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 advisory went out at Feb 27, 3:06 AM EST, 7 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 3:06 AM EST, 7 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 27, 2:59 AM EST | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 8 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 27, 10:39 AM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Guernsey | 18 hr |
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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.