Flood Warning
NWS Pittsburgh PA ยท US
Details
Flood Warning In Effect Until 615 PM EDT This Evening
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
Where
Eastern Belmont County in east central Ohio... Southeastern Jefferson OH County in east central Ohio... West Central Washington County in southwestern Pennsylvania... Brooke County in northern West Virginia... Ohio County in northern West Virginia...
When
Until 615 PM EDT.
Impacts
Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Streams continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall in Washington County flowing through the warned area.
Additional details
- At 320 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rainfall has ended with only lingering light rainfall across the warned area. Flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. - Some locations that will experience flooding include... Wheeling, Martins Ferry, Warwood, Wellsburg, West Liberty, Triadelphia, Clearview, Valley Grove, Tiltonsville, Bridgeport, Yorkville, Bethany, Franklin, Beech Bottom, Brilliant, Windsor Heights, Rayland and West Alexander. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
Affected areas
- Belmont County, OH
- Jefferson County, OH
- Washington County, PA
- Brooke County, WV
- Ohio County, WV
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Pittsburgh PA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~24s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M304A1P89VV4MTTWS3P4034X
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.14770dcf94181f2a2b206fc8cb229e4f884213ab.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Pittsburgh PA
- AWIPS ID
- CAPPBZ
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.2298
- WMO heading
- XOUS51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FLW |
| NationalWeatherService | FAW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLWPBZ |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS41 KPBZ 201922 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EDT THIS EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KPBZ.FA.W.0056.260920T1922Z-260920T2215Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-20T18:15:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Belmont County, OH
- Jefferson County, OH
- Washington County, PA
- Brooke County, WV
- Ohio County, WV
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 039013 |
| SAME | 039081 |
| SAME | 042125 |
| SAME | 054009 |
| SAME | 054069 |
| UGC | OHC013 |
| UGC | OHC081 |
| UGC | PAC125 |
| UGC | WVC009 |
| UGC | WVC069 |
- Polygons
- 40.06,-80.73 40.06,-80.76 40.2,-80.71 40.25,-80.67 40.33,-80.5 40.08,-80.51 40.05,-80.52 40.06,-80.73