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Flash Flood Warning 128, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 28, 1998Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 3:33 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 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, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Tuscarawas County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 28, 9:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:07 AM EDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	3 hr
Jun 27, 9:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas	6 hr
Jun 27, 10:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble	6 hr
Jun 27, 10:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Harrison	6 hr
Jun 27, 10:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	44 min
Jun 28, 3:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	4 hr
Jun 28, 3:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe	4 hr
Jun 28, 8:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	8 hr
Jun 28, 8:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe	8 hr
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	6 hr
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe	6 hr
Jun 28, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum	58 min
Jun 28, 6:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum	57 min
Jun 28, 6:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	54 min
Jun 28, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Harrison	75 min
Jun 28, 7:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	63 min
Jun 28, 7:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Harrison	5 hr
Jun 28, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Noble	28 min
Jun 28, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	75 min
Jun 28, 7:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	62 min
Jun 28, 7:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Monroe	62 min
Jun 28, 7:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Noble	26 min
Jun 28, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	56 min
Jun 27, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Greene	60 min
Jun 27, 8:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Greene	3 hr
Jun 27, 11:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Greene	5 hr
Jun 27, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monongalia	45 min
Jun 27, 8:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	41 min
Jun 27, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion	56 min
Jun 27, 9:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	2 hr

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.