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Flash Flood Warning 189, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 24, 1998Belmont County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT for Belmont 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: Aug 24, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Belmont County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, Aug 24, 4:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 4:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
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Local storm report, Aug 24, 6:31 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
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        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 9:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana, Tuscarawas	72 min
Aug 24, 9:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	72 min
Aug 24, 9:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	61 min
Aug 24, 9:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Harrison	61 min
Aug 24, 11:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	58 min
Aug 24, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	54 min
Aug 24, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	44 min
Aug 24, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Harrison	46 min
Aug 24, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	58 min
Aug 24, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	59 min
Aug 24, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Harrison	41 min
Aug 24, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	58 min
Aug 24, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	56 min
Aug 24, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	42 min
Aug 24, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	61 min
Aug 24, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	56 min
Aug 24, 8:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	43 min
Aug 24, 9:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Venango	55 min
Aug 24, 9:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Lawrence	54 min
Aug 24, 9:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Forest	54 min
Aug 24, 9:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Butler	54 min
Aug 24, 9:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	44 min
Aug 24, 9:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Jefferson	56 min
Aug 24, 10:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Washington	58 min
Aug 24, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	56 min
Aug 24, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	56 min
Aug 24, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Ohio	32 min
Aug 24, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	44 min
Aug 24, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke	42 min
Aug 24, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke	61 min
Aug 24, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	43 min
Aug 24, 4:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Ohio	2 hr
Aug 24, 5:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Brooke	3 hr
Aug 24, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	43 min
Aug 24, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	56 min
Aug 24, 7:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Brooke	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.