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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 28, 1998Belmont County, Harrison County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 7:16 PM EDT for Belmont County, Harrison 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 28, 1998, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Belmont County, OH, Harrison County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 60 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
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

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>015-020>022-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021-022-290300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
520 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
ALLEGHENY... ARMSTRONG... BEAVER... BUTLER... CLARION... FAYETTE...
FOREST... GREENE...  LAWRENCE... MERCER... VENANGO... WASHINGTON
AND WESTMORELAND.

IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
BROOKE... HANCOCK... OHIO... MARION... MARSHALL... MONONGALIA AND
WETZEL.

IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO...
BELMONT... CARROL... COLUMBIANA... COSHOCTON... GUERNSEY...
HARRISON... JEFFERSON... MONROE... MUSKINGUM... NOBLE AND
TUSCARAWAS.

IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA THE FOLLOWING MAY OCCUR... WINDS GUSTS
TO 80 MPH... HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING... AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.

ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS BEGINNING TO FORM
ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL OHIO.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING
TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AND ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT EAST CENTRAL OHIO...
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

STRAGER
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>015-020>022-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021-022-290300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
520 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
ALLEGHENY... ARMSTRONG... BEAVER... BUTLER... CLARION... FAYETTE...
FOREST... GREENE...  LAWRENCE... MERCER... VENANGO... WASHINGTON
AND WESTMORELAND.

IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
BROOKE... HANCOCK... OHIO... MARION... MARSHALL... MONONGALIA AND
WETZEL.

IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO...
BELMONT... CARROL... COLUMBIANA... COSHOCTON... GUERNSEY...
HARRISON... JEFFERSON... MONROE... MUSKINGUM... NOBLE AND
TUSCARAWAS.

IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA THE FOLLOWING MAY OCCUR... WINDS GUSTS
TO 80 MPH... HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING... AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.

ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS BEGINNING TO FORM
ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL OHIO.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING
TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AND ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT EAST CENTRAL OHIO...
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

STRAGER

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, 7:32 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

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.