Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Issued

Mar 2, 1997, 10:00 AM EST (15:00 UTC)

Expired

Mar 2, 1997, 3:00 PM EST

In force

5 hr

Issued by

NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Marshall County, WV

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KPIT 021501
FFWPIT
OHC111-121-PAC059-WVC049-061-103-051-022000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING EXTENDED FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1000 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS EXTENDED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY...NOBLE COUNTY
 
 
IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...GREENE COUNTY
 
 
IN  WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...MARION COUNTY...MONONGALIA COUNTY...WETZEL COUNTY
 
IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE
 
   ...MARSHALL COUNTY
 
IN GREENE COUNTY (SOUTHWESTERN PA)...FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW-LYING
AREAS CONTINUED IN THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY.
 
IN MONROE COUNTY (IN EAST-CENTRAL OHIO)...FEW STREAMS ARE STILL OVER
THEIR BANKS AND SEVERAL ROADS REMAIN FLOODED IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION
OF THE COUNTY.
 
IN NOBLE COUNTY (IN EAST-CENTRAL OHIO)...WIDESPREAD LOW-LAND FLOODED
CONTINUED.
 
IN EXTREME NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...MARSHALL COUNTY...FLOODING CONTINUED
ON THE FISH CREEK AND ADJACENT STATE AND COUNTY ROADS. ALSO...ROCK AND
MUDSLIDES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. IN WETZEL COUNTY...FLOODED ROADS ARE
REPORTED AND SEVERAL STREAMS ARE OVER THEIR BANKS. IN MARION
COUNTY...FIVE ROADS REMAIN FLOODED. IN MONONGALIA COUNTY...FLOODING WAS
STILL REPORTED IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY ON SEVERAL STREAMS.
 
THIS FLOODING WAS THE RESULT FROM THE HEAVY RAIN OVERNIGHT AND THIS
MORNING. RAINFALL TOTALS RANGED FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNING
AREA. EXPECT THE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO CREST LATE THIS MORNING OR
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...BEFORE FALLING. EXPECT CLOUDY SKIES AND SOME
LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE THIS AFTERNOON. THE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL HAS ENDED 
STAYED TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV OUTLETS
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THE
FLOODING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THEV 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.
 
 
 
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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.