Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 166, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 1998, 10:59 AM EDT for Guernsey County, Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 1 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1998, 10:59 AM EDT (14:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1998, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 1 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Guernsey County, OH, Noble County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1395 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 4, 5:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-041300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 515 AM EDT SAT JUL 4 1998 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRESENT A HAZARD FOR FOURTH OF JULY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT MAY PUT A DAMPER ON FOURTH OF JULY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL OHIO...WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...AND NORTHERN MARYLAND. ALTHOUGH THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS TODAY...THEY WILL STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. WITH SO MANY PEOPLE ACROSS THE AREA PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY... LIGHTNING WILL REPRESENT THE GREATEST HAZARD. REMEMBER...IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE AND SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING. DO NOT TAKE SHELTER IN SMALL SHEDS OR UNDER ISOLATED TREES. IF LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING AND A STURDY SHELTER IS NOT AVAILABLE...GET INSIDE A HARD TOP AUTOMOBILE AND KEEP THE WINDOWS UP. IF YOU ARE SWIMMING OR BOATING...GET TO LAND AND FIND SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STRAGER
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 5:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-041300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 515 AM EDT SAT JUL 4 1998 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRESENT A HAZARD FOR FOURTH OF JULY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT MAY PUT A DAMPER ON FOURTH OF JULY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL OHIO...WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...AND NORTHERN MARYLAND. ALTHOUGH THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS TODAY...THEY WILL STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. WITH SO MANY PEOPLE ACROSS THE AREA PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY... LIGHTNING WILL REPRESENT THE GREATEST HAZARD. REMEMBER...IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE AND SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING. DO NOT TAKE SHELTER IN SMALL SHEDS OR UNDER ISOLATED TREES. IF LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING AND A STURDY SHELTER IS NOT AVAILABLE...GET INSIDE A HARD TOP AUTOMOBILE AND KEEP THE WINDOWS UP. IF YOU ARE SWIMMING OR BOATING...GET TO LAND AND FIND SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STRAGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 10:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 1 min |
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.