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Flash Flood Warning 104, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 27, 1998Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 7:20 AM EDT for Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 5 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, 7:20 AM EDT (11:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1998, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
5 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 11:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1124 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1998-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 27, 3:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes 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, 5:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:28 AM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:38 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:38 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas3 hr
Jun 26, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe58 min
Jun 26, 8:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton3 hr
Jun 26, 8:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont3 hr
Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont55 min
Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum60 min
Jun 26, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey54 min
Jun 26, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe59 min
Jun 26, 9:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble57 min
Jun 26, 9:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe, Noble3 hr
Jun 26, 11:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Tuscarawas5 hr
Jun 26, 11:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe4 hr
Jun 27, 2:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum2 hr
Jun 27, 4:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Muskingum3 hr
Jun 27, 8:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas2 hr
Jun 27, 9:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe58 min
Jun 27, 9:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Guernsey3 hr
Jun 27, 10:49 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas2 hr
Jun 27, 11:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum2 hr
Jun 27, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Tuscarawas76 min
Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZTuscarawas40 min
Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas4 hr
Jun 27, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana58 min
Jun 27, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum31 min
Jun 27, 6:30 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZColumbiana60 min
Jun 27, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZHarrison73 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZTuscarawas31 min
Jun 27, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey58 min
Jun 27, 6:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZHarrison4 hr
Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll63 min
Jun 27, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton29 min
Jun 27, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum61 min
Jun 27, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble59 min
Jun 27, 7:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZColumbiana4 hr
Jun 27, 7:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum4 hr
Jun 27, 7:43 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZGuernsey27 min
Jun 27, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZNoble59 min
Jun 27, 7:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe69 min
Jun 26, 8:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene59 min
Jun 27, 1:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny, Washington119 min
Jun 27, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington58 min
Jun 27, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette57 min
Jun 27, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver43 min
Jun 26, 8:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarshall2 hr
Jun 26, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonongalia43 min
Jun 26, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel59 min
Jun 26, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion56 min
Jun 26, 9:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston40 min
Jun 26, 9:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker44 min
Jun 27, 3:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonongalia26 min
Jun 27, 3:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston41 min
Jun 27, 10:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel44 min
Jun 27, 7:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMarshall48 min

Nearby

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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.