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Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 14, 2019Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2019, 3:59 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2019, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2019-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2019-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 3:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZTucker26 min
Jul 14, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker42 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.