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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 8, 1998Guernsey County, Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 8, 1998, 10:55 AM EST for Guernsey County, Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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
Jan 8, 1998, 10:55 AM EST (15:55 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 1998, 2:00 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Guernsey County, OH, Muskingum County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 1998-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 129 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 1998-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 7:34 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas8 hr
Jan 7, 7:34 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum, Noble8 hr
Jan 7, 9:12 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll, Harrison7 hr
Jan 7, 9:12 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe7 hr
Jan 7, 10:36 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZColumbiana, Jefferson5 hr
Jan 8, 4:09 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble7 hr
Jan 8, 4:09 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Harrison7 hr
Jan 8, 4:09 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas7 hr
Jan 8, 4:49 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll, Jefferson6 hr
Jan 8, 10:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZJefferson3 hr
Jan 8, 8:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBeaver4 hr
Jan 8, 8:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZForest4 hr
Jan 8, 10:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBeaver3 hr
Jan 8, 10:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZForest3 hr
Jan 7, 9:23 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZWetzel7 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.