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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 2, 19974 counties in Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 10:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton13 hr
Jun 2, 9:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZColumbiana4 hr
Jun 2, 10:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton12 hr
Jun 2, 2:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe4 hr
Jun 2, 3:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Noble4 hr
Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum59 min
Jun 2, 5:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum3 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.