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River Flood Warning 13, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood warning at Feb 18, 2022, 10:20 AM EST for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 18, 2022, 5:00 PM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2022, 10:20 AM EST (15:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 18, 2022, 5:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2022, 3:57 AM EST
- In force
- 11 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 15:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Allegheny River at C.W. Bill Young Lock and Dam (ACMP1).
- Action stage
- 15 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 20 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03049640, 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 Feb 18, 7:07 AM EST, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 7:07 AM EST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 428 AM EST Fri Feb 18 2022 OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029- 031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021-509>514-190930- Tuscarawas-Carroll-Columbiana-Coshocton-Harrison-Jefferson OH- Muskingum-Guernsey-Belmont-Noble-Monroe-Mercer-Venango-Forest- Lawrence-Butler-Clarion-Jefferson PA-Beaver-Allegheny-Armstrong- Indiana-Washington-Greene-Westmoreland- Higher Elevations of Westmoreland-Fayette- Higher Elevations of Fayette-Hancock-Brooke-Ohio-Marshall-Wetzel- Marion-Monongalia- Ridges of Eastern Monongalia and Northwestern Preston-Preston- Eastern Preston-Western Tucker-Eastern Tucker- 428 AM EST Fri Feb 18 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 18, 7:03 AM EST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 17, 7:30 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:06 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Lawrence | 44 min |
| Feb 17, 8:32 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 12 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:50 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:54 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny | 2 hr |
| Feb 18, 1:00 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Beaver, Butler | 13 hr |
| Feb 18, 1:02 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Lawrence | 9 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:26 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:05 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler | 18 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:20 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 14 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:20 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 27 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:20 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 7:53 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 9 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Noble | 19 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:02 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 66 hr |
| Feb 18, 6:57 PM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | Tucker | 23 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.