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River Flood Advisory 9, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood advisory at Nov 6, 2017, 11:35 AM EST for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 6, 2017, 11:35 AM EST (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 2017, 11:33 PM EST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Allegheny County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Nov 6, 11:03 AM EST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 11:03 AM EST, 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 7:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 28 min |
| Nov 5, 7:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Mercer, Venango | 64 min |
| Nov 5, 7:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Indiana, Jefferson | 53 min |
| Nov 5, 7:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Westmoreland | 34 min |
| Nov 5, 8:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Nov 5, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Indiana | 38 min |
| Nov 5, 8:50 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 9:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver | 45 min |
| Nov 6, 5:04 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Washington, Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 6:56 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 9:53 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 13 hr |
| Nov 5, 7:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 63 min |
| Nov 5, 8:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 1 more | 62 min |
| Nov 5, 8:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 46 min |
| Nov 6, 12:42 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 2:18 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Guernsey, Harrison, Muskingum | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 4:05 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe, Noble | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 5:16 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Noble | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 5:36 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.