Alert archive / Pennsylvania / River Flood Warnings in 2018
River Flood Warning 68, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood warning at Sep 10, 2018, 3:43 PM EDT for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Sep 10, 2018, 4:02 PM EDT. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2018, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 10, 2018, 4:02 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2018, 4:49 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Allegheny County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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 Dashields Lock and Dam (DSHP1).
- Action stage
- 19.4 ft
- Minor stage
- 25 ft
- Moderate stage
- 29 ft
- Major stage
- 32 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03086000, 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 Sep 9, 7:35 PM EDT, 20 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 7:35 PM EDT, 20 hours 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 9:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence and 2 more | 116 min |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 39 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 47 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 52 hr |
| Sep 9, 11:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Washington and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 18 hr |
| Sep 10, 3:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 7 hr |
| Sep 10, 4:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Washington and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 52 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 49 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 55 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 59 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Jefferson | 62 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 63 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 63 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 64 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 65 hr |
| Sep 10, 3:32 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Preston, Wetzel | 5 hr |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2018Every river flood warning in 2018
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.