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WGUS81 KPBZ 160658
FLSPBZ
FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
158 AM EST SUN FEB 16 2025
...THE FLOOD WARNING IS EXTENDED FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN
PENNSYLVANIA...
YOUGHIOGHENY RIVER AT CONNELLSVILLE AFFECTING FAYETTE COUNTY.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WEATHER.GOV/PBZ.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON AT 200 PM EST.
PAC051-161900-
/O.EXT.KPBZ.FL.W.0003.250216T2000Z-250217T0824Z/
/CLLP1.1.ER.250216T2000Z.250217T0000Z.250217T0224Z.NO/
158 AM EST SUN FEB 16 2025
..FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO LATE TONIGHT
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...YOUGHIOGHENY RIVER AT CONNELLSVILLE.
* WHEN...FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO LATE TONIGHT.
* IMPACTS...AT 12.0 FEET, FLOODING BEGINS IN THE VICINITY OF YOUGH
PARK.
AT 14.0 FEET, SEVERAL INCHES OF WATER FLOODS BASEMENTS OF ABOUT 30
HOMES ALONG LEFT BANK. RIVER IS BANKFUL ALONG THE LEFT BANK JUST
DOWNSTREAM FROM THE CRAWFORD STREET BRIDGE. WATER REACHES THE
LEVEL OF THE HURRICANE IVAN FLOOD OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2004.
AT 14.1 FEET, WATER REACHES LEVEL OF MARCH 3, 2015.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 1:15 AM EST SUNDAY THE STAGE WAS 4.5 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 12.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE
LATE THIS AFTERNOON TO A CREST OF 12.6 FEET THIS EVENING. IT
WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE LATE THIS EVENING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 12.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
12.5 FEET ON 02/19/2000.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 3998 7961 4005 7963 4005 7959 3999 7957
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