Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 5:53 AM EST for Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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
- Mar 2, 1997, 5:53 AM EST (10:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 458 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 021058 FFWPIT OHC013-059-111-121-PAC051-059-WVC049-061-077-103-051-021500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 553 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...BELMONT COUNTY...GUERNSEY COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY ...NOBLE COUNTY IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...FAYETTE COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA ...MARION COUNTY...MONONGALIA COUNTY...PRESTON COUNTY ...WETZEL COUNTY IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE ...MARSHALL COUNTY THE FLOOD WARNING FOR MUSKINGUM COUNTY IN OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 10 AM THIS MORNING. FLOODING IS ONGOING WITH MANY ROADS REPORTED AS BEING COVERED WITH WATER. SOME SPECIFIC REPORTS... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO... MONROE COUNTY...STATE ROUTE 78 UNDER WATER NEAR LEWISVILLE. NOBLE COUNTY...ROUTE 147 FLOODED IN SPOTS BETWEEN MT. EPHRAIM AND SARAHSVILLE. BELMONT COUNTY...WATER OVER RT 148 FROM CAPTINA CREEK. IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... MARSHALL COUNTY...WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF ROADS ALONG LITTLE AND BIG GRAVES CREEKS AND FISH CREEK. WETZEL COUNTY...RTS 7 AND 20 BLOCKED WITH FLOOD WATERS. IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA... GREENE COUNTY...WESTERN 3/4 OF THE COUNTY HAS NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED...S EEVACUATIONS. FAYETTE COUNTY...BASEMENT FLOODING. HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED SOUTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE AND WILL END DURING THE COURSE OF THE MORNING. HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM LAST NIGHTS AND THIS MORNINGS RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WJD/RWH/ROR/RRR/PBM &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 10:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble | 9 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 9 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Noble | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 7 hr |
Nearby
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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.