Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 10, 1998, 9:59 PM EST for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 7 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 10, 1998, 9:59 PM EST (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 1998, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscarawas County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 110258 FFWPIT OHC157-111000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 959 PM EST SAT JAN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS CONTINUED THE FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 5 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...TUSCARAWAS COUNTY. ON STILLWATER CREEK...AT UHRICHSVILLE...THE STAGE WAS 5.16 FEET AT 10 PM. FLOOD STAGE IS 5 FEET. THE CREEK WILL FALL SLOWLY OVERNIGHT.f
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 10, 5:00 PM EST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT ............AMENDMENT..............
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
500 PM EST SAT JAN 10 1998
THIS LOCAL STORM REPORT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE 740 AM EST JAN 09 1998 REPORT.
THIS REPORT AMENDED AFTER STORM SURVEY COMPLETED ON 01/10/98.
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 AM 6SE MOUNDSVILLE WV TORNADO.
01/09/98 MARSHALL *** 0 DEAD *** 0 INJURED
F1 TORNADO. ESTIMATED PATH LENGTH 8
MILES. WIDTH APPROXIMATELY 250
YARDS. THERE WERE 17 HOMES AFFECTED
WITH MAINLY ROOF AND CHIMNEY DAMAGE.
THERE WERE 12 HOMES WITH FRAME
(WOODEN) CONSTRUCTION AND 5 MOBILE
HOMES. ALONG THE PATH THERE WAS
CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE (TREES
SNAPPED OR TOPPLED). HARDEST HIT
AREA WAS ABOUT 3.5 SOUTH OF
MOUNDSVILLE(GRAVE CREEK AREA). WINDS
GENERALLY ESTIMATED BETWEEN 55 TO 75
MPH. HOWEVER...DAMAGE IN GRAVE CREEK
AREA CONSISTENT WITH WINDS 75 TO 85
MPH.
KANELocal storm report, Jan 10, 5:00 PM EST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT ............CORRECTED..............
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
500 PM EST SAT JAN 10 1998
THIS LOCAL STORM REPORT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE 740 AM EST JAN 09 1998 REPORT.
THIS REPORT AMENDED AFTER STORM SURVEY COMPLETED ON 01/10/98.
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 AM 6SE MOUNDSVILLE WV TORNADO.
01/09/98 MARSHALL *** 0 DEAD *** 0 INJURED
F1 TORNADO. ESTIMATED PATH LENGTH 8
MILES. WIDTH APPROXIMATELY 250
YARDS. THERE WERE 17 HOMES AFFECTED
WITH MAINLY ROOF AND CHIMNEY DAMAGE.
THERE WERE 12 HOMES WITH FRAME
(WOODEN) CONSTRUCTION AND 5 MOBILE
HOMES. ALONG THE PATH THERE WAS
CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE (TREES
SNAPPED OR TOPPLED). HARDEST HIT
AREA WAS ABOUT 3.5 SOUTH OF
MOUNDSVILLE(GRAVE CREEK AREA). WINDS
GENERALLY ESTIMATED BETWEEN 55 TO 75
MPH. HOWEVER...DAMAGE IN GRAVE CREEK
AREA CONSISTENT WITH WINDS 75 TO 85
MPH.
0120 AM 6SE MOUNDSVILLE WV 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/09/98 MARSHALL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND.
CORRECTED TO ADD HAIL REPORT
KANELocal storm report, Jan 10, 5:00 PM EST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT ............AMENDMENT..............
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
500 PM EST SAT JAN 10 1998
THIS LOCAL STORM REPORT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE 740 AM EST JAN 09 1998 REPORT.
THIS REPORT AMENDED AFTER STORM SURVEY COMPLETED ON 01/10/98.
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 AM 6SE MOUNDSVILLE WV TORNADO.
01/09/98 MARSHALL *** 0 DEAD *** 0 INJURED
F1 TORNADO. ESTIMATED PATH LENGTH 8
MILES. WIDTH APPROXIMATELY 250
YARDS. THERE WERE 17 HOMES AFFECTED
WITH MAINLY ROOF AND CHIMNEY DAMAGE.
THERE WERE 12 HOMES WITH FRAME
(WOODEN) CONSTRUCTION AND 5 MOBILE
HOMES. ALONG THE PATH THERE WAS
CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE (TREES
SNAPPED OR TOPPLED). HARDEST HIT
AREA WAS ABOUT 3.5 SOUTH OF
MOUNDSVILLE(GRAVE CREEK AREA). WINDS
GENERALLY ESTIMATED BETWEEN 55 TO 75
MPH. HOWEVER...DAMAGE IN GRAVE CREEK
AREA CONSISTENT WITH WINDS 75 TO 85
MPH.
KANELocal storm report, Jan 10, 5:00 PM EST, 4 hours 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT ............CORRECTED..............
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
500 PM EST SAT JAN 10 1998
THIS LOCAL STORM REPORT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE 740 AM EST JAN 09 1998 REPORT.
THIS REPORT AMENDED AFTER STORM SURVEY COMPLETED ON 01/10/98.
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 AM 6SE MOUNDSVILLE WV TORNADO.
01/09/98 MARSHALL *** 0 DEAD *** 0 INJURED
F1 TORNADO. ESTIMATED PATH LENGTH 8
MILES. WIDTH APPROXIMATELY 250
YARDS. THERE WERE 17 HOMES AFFECTED
WITH MAINLY ROOF AND CHIMNEY DAMAGE.
THERE WERE 12 HOMES WITH FRAME
(WOODEN) CONSTRUCTION AND 5 MOBILE
HOMES. ALONG THE PATH THERE WAS
CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE (TREES
SNAPPED OR TOPPLED). HARDEST HIT
AREA WAS ABOUT 3.5 SOUTH OF
MOUNDSVILLE(GRAVE CREEK AREA). WINDS
GENERALLY ESTIMATED BETWEEN 55 TO 75
MPH. HOWEVER...DAMAGE IN GRAVE CREEK
AREA CONSISTENT WITH WINDS 75 TO 85
MPH.
0120 AM 6SE MOUNDSVILLE WV 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/09/98 MARSHALL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND.
CORRECTED TO ADD HAIL REPORT
KANENearby
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.