Slow moving cold front continued to move across the region on the 29th. With the slow movement of the boundary, training storms caused flash flooding over portions of Monongalia county.
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Slow moving cold front continued to move across the region on the 29th. With the slow movement of the boundary, training storms caused flash flooding over portions of Monongalia county.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 29, 1:39 PM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 239 PM EDT THU MAY 29 2014 .SYNOPSIS... A SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MAINTAIN SHOWER CHANCES TODAY MAINLY FOR AREAS SOUTH AND EAST OF PITTSBURGH. BUILDING HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD ENSURE A DRY AND WARM WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH FRIDAY/... WEAK SFC LOPRES EVIDENT IN WIND FIELD IS CNTRD IN FCST AREA THIS MRNG...WITH FRONTAL BNDRY STRETCHING FROM KLHQ-KZZV-KAFJ. CLD CVR THIS MRNG WAS EXTENSIVE...WHICH HAS LMTD CNVCTV DVLPMT ALONG THIS BNDRY TO AREAS WHERE BREAKS IN CLDS OCCURRED. N OF THIS BNDRY... LGT RAIN OR DRZL FROM THIS MRNG HAS WANED. POPS THIS AFTN WERE FOCUSED PRIMARILY S OF THE BNDRY...SPCLY THE HIGHER TERRAIN...WHERE SHWRS AND TSTMS ARE INCRG IN CVRG THIS AFTN AS SHRTWV TROF APRCHS. OWING TO LACK OF STRONG HEATING...UPDRAFT STRENGTH SHOULD BE LMTD...AND THUS SVR WX AND INTENSE RAIN NOT XPCD. PCPN WILL SHIFT SEWD TNGT AS HIPRES BUILDS INTO THE GRTLKS RGN. CLDS THAT LINGER WILL DO SO UNTIL NWLY H5 FLOW BCMS NLY LATE TNGT...AND DRIER LOW-LVL AIR BGNS TO MOVE SWD INTO THE FCST AREA. WHERE CLRG OCCURS...FOG IS XPCD...SPCLY IN RVR VLLYS. LINGERING MSTR AND HEATING ON FRI MAY PROVIDE INGREDIENTS FOR DVLPMT OF A FEW SHWRS/TSTMS ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN FRI AFTN AS A SHRTWV TROF PASSES TO THE E OF THE FCST AREA...BUT CONFIDENCE IS LOW. POPS WERE NOT INCLD IN THE FCST ATTM. MAXIMA ON FRI WILL REACH UPR 70S-NR 80. && .SHORT TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... NO MAJOR CHANGES TO THE SHORT TERM PERIOD. STACKED HIGH PRESSURE WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY AND CALM THROUGH THE WEEKEND. VERY LITTLE MODEL SPREAD OFFERED FOR TEMPS AS THEY REACH CLOSE TO 80 SAT AND ABOVE 80 ON SUNDAY. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. AS FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE SOUTHWESTERLY MOISTURE ADVECTION WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE REGION WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS EXPECTED TO JUMP BACK INTO THE 60S BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. LAPSE RATES THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK DO NOT LOOK OVERLY IMPRESSIVE AT THE MOMENT BUT THERE IS A AT LEAST A THIN CAPE PROFILE DURING THE AFTERNOON PRESENT THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEK AND EXPECT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EACH DAY DURING THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS...AND POTENTIALLY CONTINUING THROUGH THE NIGHT DEPENDING ON TIMING OF SHORTWAVES RIDING ALONG A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY JUST NORTH. WITH PROGGED PWAT VALUES WELL 2 STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE NORMAL AND THE BOUNDARY NEARBY...FLOODING MAY END UP BEING THE BIGGEST IMPACT ACROSS THE REGION...ESPECIALLY IF THE BOUNDARY ENDS UP BEING MORE SOUTH AND OVER THE FORECAST AREA. && .AVIATION /19Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... VSBY/CIG RESTRICTIONS WILL BCM FEWER EARLY THIS AFTN AS SLGTLY DRIER AIR INVADES IN THE WAKE OF SFC LOPRES. RVR FOG SEEMS LKLY TO DVLP TNGT AS WINDS RMN LGT. PREV FCST FOR TNGT SEEMS REASONABLE...WITH LITTLE DEVIATION LKLY. .OUTLOOK.../FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... GENERAL VFR IS EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND AS HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS THE DOMINANT FEATURE. EARLY NEXT WEEK...INCREASING MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN CHANCES FOR SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 325 AM EDT THU MAY 29 2014 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-301200- GARRETT-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-WESTMORELAND RIDGES- FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION- MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 325 AM EDT THU MAY 29 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
State official reported flooding on Daybrook Road and Statler Run Road.
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