Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 6:59 AM EST for Columbiana 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 9, 1998, 6:59 AM EST (11:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 1998, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbiana County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 091210 COR FFWPIT OHC029-091500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING ..............CORRECTED....... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 659 AM EST FRI JAN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...COLUMBIANA COUNTY WATER CONTINUES TO RISE VERY RAPIDLY ALONG THE CENTER FORK OF BEAVER CREEK IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY. STATE ROUTE 154 HAS BEEN CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER AND THE RESIDENTS OF ELKTON SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE LOW-LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. CORRECTED FOR GARBLED TRANSMISSION &
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, Jan 9, 2:41 AM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
241 AM EST FRI JAN 09 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 AM TROY HILL PA LARGE HAIL
01/09/98 ALLEGHENY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL COVERING
ROADS...GROUND AND CARS. HAIL
FELL HORIZONTALLY AS
ACCOMPANIED BY VERY STRONG
WINDS.
STREAM FLOODING THROUGHOUT
COUNTY.
0935 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 GUERNSEY SOME FLOODING REPORTED ON
COUNTY ROADS
0940 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 TUSCARAWAS SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED
COUNTY-WIDE
1030 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 MONROE SEVERAL ROADS AND SMALL
STREAMS FLOODED. STATE
ROUTE 78 1 LANE CLOSED.
STATE ROUTE 379 FLOODED.
1030 PM 2 N WELLSVILLE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 COLUMBIANA SIGNIFICANT PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADS. A TREE WAS
WASHED OUT AND ACROSS A
ROAD JUST NORTH OF
WELLSVILLE.
1040 PM HUNDRED WV FLOODING
01/07/98 WETZEL CREEK OUT ALONG ROUTE 69
NEAR HUNDRED.
1120 PM HOPEDALE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 HARRISON HIGH WATER ONTO ROSE
VALLEY ROAD NEAR HOPEDALE
1120 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 CARROLL SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. ONE WITH 6 TO 7
FEET DEPTH OF WATER.
1125 PM RAYLAND OH FLOODING
01/07/98 JEFFERSON COUNTY ROAD 15 NEAR ROUTE 15 0
FLOODED NEAR RAYLAND.
MURPHYLocal storm report, Jan 9, 2:41 AM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
241 AM EST FRI JAN 09 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 AM TROY HILL PA LARGE HAIL
01/09/98 ALLEGHENY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL COVERING
ROADS...GROUND AND CARS. HAIL
FELL HORIZONTALLY AS
ACCOMPANIED BY VERY STRONG
WINDS.
STREAM FLOODING THROUGHOUT
COUNTY.
0935 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 GUERNSEY SOME FLOODING REPORTED ON
COUNTY ROADS
0940 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 TUSCARAWAS SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED
COUNTY-WIDE
1030 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 MONROE SEVERAL ROADS AND SMALL
STREAMS FLOODED. STATE
ROUTE 78 1 LANE CLOSED.
STATE ROUTE 379 FLOODED.
1030 PM 2 N WELLSVILLE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 COLUMBIANA SIGNIFICANT PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADS. A TREE WAS
WASHED OUT AND ACROSS A
ROAD JUST NORTH OF
WELLSVILLE.
1040 PM HUNDRED WV FLOODING
01/07/98 WETZEL CREEK OUT ALONG ROUTE 69
NEAR HUNDRED.
1120 PM HOPEDALE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 HARRISON HIGH WATER ONTO ROSE
VALLEY ROAD NEAR HOPEDALE
1120 PM COUNTY-WIDE OH FLOODING
01/07/98 CARROLL SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. ONE WITH 6 TO 7
FEET DEPTH OF WATER.
1125 PM RAYLAND OH FLOODING
01/07/98 JEFFERSON COUNTY ROAD 15 NEAR ROUTE 15 0
FLOODED NEAR RAYLAND.
MURPHYLocal storm report, Jan 9, 2:44 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
244 AM EST FRI JAN 09 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 AM TROY HILL PA LARGE HAIL
01/09/98 ALLEGHENY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL COVERING
ROADS...GROUND AND CARS. HAIL
FELL HORIZONTALLY AS
ACCOMPANIED BY VERY STRONG
WINDS.
REDMONDLocal storm report, Jan 9, 3:48 AM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
348 AM EST FRI JAN 09 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 AM 5E MOUNDSVILLE WV WIND DAMAGE.
01/09/98 MARSHALL ROOFS BLOWN OFF AND PORCHES
KNOCKED DOWN. GARAGES
DAMAGED. MANY TREES DOWN
OVER A 1 MILE STRETCH.
0315 AM KITTANNING PA 1.0 INCH HAIL
01/09/98 ARMSTRONG
0341 AM SLIGO PA WIND DAMAGE.
01/09/98 CLARION TREE TOPPLED ON POWER LINE
CAUSING POWER OUTAGE.
KANELocal storm report, Jan 9, 3:48 AM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
348 AM EST FRI JAN 09 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 AM 5E MOUNDSVILLE WV WIND DAMAGE.
01/09/98 MARSHALL ROOFS BLOWN OFF AND PORCHES
KNOCKED DOWN. GARAGES
DAMAGED. MANY TREES DOWN
OVER A 1 MILE STRETCH.
0315 AM KITTANNING PA 1.0 INCH HAIL
01/09/98 ARMSTRONG
0341 AM SLIGO PA WIND DAMAGE.
01/09/98 CLARION TREE TOPPLED ON POWER LINE
CAUSING POWER OUTAGE.
KANEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 11:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 68 min |
| Jan 9, 12:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Harrison, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 65 min |
| Jan 9, 1:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:13 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 107 min |
| Jan 9, 4:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jan 9, 8:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 13 hr |
| Jan 9, 11:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 12 hr |
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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.