Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2016, 6:16 AM EDT for Allegheny County, Beaver 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
- Jun 3, 2016, 6:16 AM EDT (10:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2016, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:24 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Nw Aliquippa, PA | CHAPEL ROAD FLOODED |
| Jun 3, 6:45 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Harmony Township, PA | FLOODED ROADS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted.
666
WGUS51 KPBZ 031017
FFWPBZ
PAC003-007-031315-
/O.NEW.KPBZ.FF.W.0009.160603T1016Z-160603T1315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
616 AM EDT FRI JUN 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BEAVER COUNTY IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
NORTHWESTERN ALLEGHENY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 915 AM EDT
* AT 616 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
ROSS TOWNSHIP...MCCANDLESS TOWNSHIP...FRANKLIN PARK...ALIQUIPPA...
MONACA...ECONOMY...AMBRIDGE...WEXFORD...NEW BRIGHTON...BEAVER...
BADEN...ROCHESTER...OHIOVILLE...HARMONY TOWNSHIP...GIBSONIA...
MIDLAND...INDUSTRY...LEETSDALE...
SHIPPINGPORT AND PATTERSON TOWNSHIP.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 30 AND 35.
INTERSTATE 79 IN PENNSYLVANIA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 68 AND 77.
INTERSTATE 279 IN PENNSYLVANIA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 10 AND 13.
INTERSTATE 376 IN PENNSYLVANIA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 34 AND 46.
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING BY CALLING 4 1 2...2 6 2...1 9 8 8...POSTING
TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH FACEBOOK PAGE...OR USING TWITTER
@NWSPITTSBURGH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 4070 8015 4067 8015 4067 7996 4054 8006
4060 8047 4075 8046
$$1 follow-up statement
630
WGUS71 KPBZ 031119
FFSPBZ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
718 AM EDT FRI JUN 3 2016
PAC003-007-031128-
/O.CAN.KPBZ.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160603T1315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BEAVER PA-ALLEGHENY PA-
718 AM EDT FRI JUN 3 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL BEAVER AND NORTHWESTERN
ALLEGHENY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED AND AREAS OF PONDED WATER WILL SLOWLY
RECEDE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 4070 8015 4067 8015 4067 7996 4054 8006
4060 8047 4075 8046
$$
15The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Westmoreland | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 8:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 9:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Clarion, Venango | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 9:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Butler | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 1:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Forest, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Westmoreland | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.