Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 137, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 10:38 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. 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, 10:38 PM EDT (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 2035 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
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, 5 hours 18 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, 5 hours 18 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, 9:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 58 min |
| Jun 28, 8:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 9:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble | 13 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Harrison, Monroe | 13 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 13 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 5:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 10:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas | 13 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe, Noble | 13 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 13 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Tuscarawas | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 7:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 74 min |
| Jun 28, 8:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 28, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 70 min |
| Jun 28, 9:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Greene | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Ohio | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 10:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 6 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 6 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 8:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 5 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.