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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood warning at Jan 13, 2018, 12:22 AM EST for Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2018, 12:22 AM EST (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2018, 8:02 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Armstrong County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Allegheny River at Kittanning Lock and Dam (KTTP1). The gauge peaked at 21.04 ft at Jan 13, 2018, 1:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 17 ft
- Minor stage
- 21 ft
- Moderate stage
- 22 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03036500, 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 12, 4:47 PM EST, 7 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 4:47 PM EST, 7 hours 35 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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| Jan 12, 11:47 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion | 13 hr |
| Jan 13, 2:42 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 14 hr |
| Jan 13, 7:15 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 27 hr |
| Jan 13, 11:15 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 11:19 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny | 9 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:43 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | PBZ | Fayette, Forest, Jefferson, Westmoreland | 20 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:32 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 32 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.