Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 3, 1997Coshocton County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1997, 9:00 PM EDT for Coshocton County, Ohio. It was in force for 15 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 3, 1997, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1997, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Coshocton County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -80 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-38 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 040100
FFWPIT
OHC031-051600-

FLOOD WARNING-EXTENDED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
900 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING
UNTIL NOON WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO

   ...COSHOCTON COUNTY.

AT 855 PM THE MUSKINGUM RIVER AT COSHOCTON WAS AT 14.4 FEET. RIVER
LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE THE 13 FEET FLOOD STAGE THROUGH AT
LEAST NOON WEDNESDAY.

OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY ALSO BE IN FLOOD. BE ALERT TO LOW LAND AND
POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. IF YOU GET
ANY INDICATION THAT FLOOD WATERS ARE APPROACHING MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND.

RW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 11:00 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton60 min

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.