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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 28, 1998Wetzel County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 2:33 AM EDT for Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 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 28, 1998, 2:33 AM EDT (06:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1998, 5:00 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Wetzel County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 272 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2378 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1998-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
2378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
11.8

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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 28, 12:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 8:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe, Noble3 hr
Jun 27, 9:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas6 hr
Jun 27, 10:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble6 hr
Jun 27, 10:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZHarrison6 hr
Jun 27, 10:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum44 min
Jun 28, 3:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble4 hr
Jun 28, 3:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe4 hr
Jun 28, 8:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble8 hr
Jun 28, 8:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe8 hr
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble6 hr
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe6 hr
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas6 hr
Jun 28, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Muskingum58 min
Jun 28, 6:18 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZGuernsey, Muskingum57 min
Jun 28, 6:46 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZTuscarawas54 min
Jun 28, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Harrison75 min
Jun 28, 7:12 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZGuernsey63 min
Jun 28, 7:16 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Harrison5 hr
Jun 28, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble28 min
Jun 28, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton75 min
Jun 28, 7:38 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZTuscarawas62 min
Jun 28, 7:38 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMonroe62 min
Jun 28, 7:44 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZNoble26 min
Jun 28, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson56 min
Jun 27, 8:20 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZGreene60 min
Jun 27, 8:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene3 hr
Jun 27, 11:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene5 hr
Jun 27, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonongalia45 min
Jun 27, 8:39 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZWetzel41 min
Jun 27, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion56 min
Jun 27, 9:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia, Wetzel3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.