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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 17, 2025Allegheny County, Butler County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2025, 12:50 PM EDT for Allegheny County, Butler County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 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
Jun 17, 2025, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2025, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Allegheny County, PA, Butler County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 2025-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 249 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 2025-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 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
249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 17, 11:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 11:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:17 AM EDTFlood WatchPBZAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 9 more27 hr
Jun 17, 12:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny3 hr
Jun 17, 1:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny4 hr
Jun 17, 2:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland7 hr
Jun 17, 5:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Forest, Mercer, Venango3 hr
Jun 17, 5:52 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZArmstrong, Clarion23 min
Jun 17, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWestmoreland3 hr
Jun 17, 7:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong, Clarion, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson2 hr
Jun 17, 7:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette, Westmoreland3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.