Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1997, 6:55 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 7 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
- Jun 2, 1997, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1997, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Guernsey County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 022255 FFWPIT OHC059-111-119-121-030600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 655 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EDT TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...GUERNSEY COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY...MUSKINGUM COUNTY ...NOBLE COUNTY NUMEROUS FLOOD PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO THIS EVENING. IN MONROE COUNTY...PARTS OF STATE ROUTE 78 WAS FLOODED. STATE ROUTE 7 NEAR SARDIS WAS REPORTED CLOSED. OTHER TOWNSHIP ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY WERE ALSO UNDER WATER. IN NOBLE COUNTY...NUMEROUS SMALL STREAMS AND 6 ROADS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY WERE FLOODED. IN GUERNSEY COUNTY...NUMEROUS SMALL STREAMS WERE FLOODED...MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. ALSO...A HOUSE TRAILER BETWEEN BYESVILLE AND BUFFALO WAS REPORTED ABOUT TO SLIDE DOWN A HILL. IN MUSKINGUM COUNTY...NUMEROUS ROADS WERE FLOODED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SATURATED GROUND WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL RUNOFF THAT WILL FURTHER AGGREVATE THE FLOODING. ADDITIONAL STREAMS...CREEKS AND ROADS MAY ALSO BEGIN TO FLOOD. BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION TO SAVE LIFE AND PROPERTY. BE CAREFUL AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODS. IF YOU GET ANY INDICATION THAT FLOODS ARE APPROACHING...QUICKLY MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 10:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 13 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 12 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Noble | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.