Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 4:45 AM EDT for Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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 27, 1998, 4:45 AM EDT (08:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coshocton County, OH, Muskingum County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 270846 FFWPIT OHC031-119-271200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 445 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COSHOCTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO MUSKINGUM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 800 AM EDT. * AT 440 AM EDT RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO COSHOCTON AND MUSKINGUM COUNTIES FROM THE NORTHWEST. MAJOR FLOODING IS LIKELY IN BOTH COUNTIES. SOME PARTS HAVE RECEIVED 4 INCHES OF RAIN ALREADY AND MORE IS ON THE WAY. THESE CREEKS ARE MOST IN JEOPARDY...BIG RUN...BLOUNT RUN...BLUNT RUN...STUMP RUN... BRUSHY FORK...JUG RUN...AND ANDERSON RUN. THE SHERIFF IS JUST BEGINNING TO GET CALLS ABOUT FLOODING. IN COSHOCTON COUNTY...THE SOUTHWESTERN HALF IS MOST THREATENED BY FLOODING. SOME MUDSLIDES HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED. THIS INDICATES THE GROUND IS COMPLETELY SATURATED. ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL TURN TO IMMEDIATE FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 26, 11:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1152 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 PM CALAIS OH FLOODING
06/26/98 MONROE WILLS CREEK OUT OF BANKS
AND ONTO ROUTE 379. OTHER
TOWNSHIP ROADS FLOODED.
1140 PM COUNTYWIDE OH FLOODING
06/26/98 NOBLE SEVERAL ROADS COVERED WITH
WATERLocal storm report, Jun 27, 12:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1206 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM NEWCOMERSTOWN OH FLOODING
06/27/98 TUSCARAWAS STREET FLOODING
1000 PM 2 S KINGWOOD WV WIND DAMAGE
06/27/98 PRESTON TREES DOWN
1030 PM SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY OH FLOODING
06/27/98 TUSCARAWAS NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED IN
SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY.Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1206 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM NEWCOMERSTOWN OH FLOODING
06/27/98 TUSCARAWAS STREET FLOODING
1000 PM 2 S KINGWOOD WV WIND DAMAGE
06/27/98 PRESTON TREES DOWN
1030 PM SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY OH FLOODING
06/27/98 TUSCARAWAS NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED IN
SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY.Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1230 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM 2 S KINGWOOD WV WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98 PRESTON TREES DOWN
...CORRECTED TIME OF EVENT...Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:45 AM EDT, 1 hour before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
345 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998
TIME(EDT) ....CITY LOCATION.... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION...
0322 AM MORGANTOWN WV WIND DAMAGE
06/27/98 MONONGALIA 3 TREES BLOWN DOWN.Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:45 AM EDT, 1 hour before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
345 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998
TIME(EDT) ....CITY LOCATION.... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION...
0322 AM MORGANTOWN WV WIND DAMAGE
06/27/98 MONONGALIA 3 TREES BLOWN DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 9:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Tuscarawas | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 9:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 9:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 11:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 76 min |
| Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 73 min |
| Jun 27, 6:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 7:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Noble | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 69 min |
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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.