Alert archive / Pennsylvania / River Flood Watches in 2011
River Flood Watch 13, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood watch at Mar 4, 2011, 10:39 PM EST for Beaver County, Pennsylvania; Columbiana County, Ohio; Hancock County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 7, 2011, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2011, 10:39 PM EST (03:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 7, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2011, 3:25 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Columbiana County, OH, Beaver County, PA, Hancock County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 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.
The river
Written for the forecast point Ohio River at Montgomery Lock and Dam (MGYP1).
- Action stage
- 23.3 ft
- Minor stage
- 33 ft
- Moderate stage
- 36 ft
- Major stage
- 38 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03108500, 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 watch 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 watch went out at Mar 4, 3:32 PM EST, 7 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 3:32 PM EST, 7 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 4, 12:14 PM EST, 10 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1214 PM EST FRI MAR 4 2011 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-051715- 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-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES- FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION- MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 1214 PM EST FRI MAR 4 2011 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. WIDESPREAD HEAVY OR PROLONGED RAINFALL THIS WEEKEND WILL IMPACT AREA RIVERS ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny | 41 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny | 24 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Beaver | 24 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 13 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland | 13 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 13 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny | 37 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:59 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 8 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:24 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer, Venango | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Columbiana | 41 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Jefferson | 41 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Jefferson | 24 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Jefferson | 24 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Belmont, Jefferson | 41 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Belmont | 41 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Belmont, Noble | 41 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Noble | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:53 AM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 10 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:39 PM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Marshall | 41 hr |
Nearby
River Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2011River Flood Watches in Ohio, 2011River Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2011Every river flood watch in 2011
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.