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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 2, 1998Wetzel County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1998, 6:12 AM EDT for Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 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
May 2, 1998, 6:12 AM EDT (10:12 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1998, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Wetzel County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 00:00Z on 1998-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 00:00Z on 1998-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 021014
FFWPIT
WVC103-021400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
612 AM EDT SAT MAY 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WETZEL COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1000 AM EDT

* MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS WETZEL COUNTY
  OVERNIGHT THROUGH THE PREDAWN HOURS OF SATURDAY....EFFECTING
  ESPECIALLY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY.
  THE RAIN IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE HAS REPORTED SOME FLOODING ALONG ROUTE
  20 IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WETZEL COUNTY ALONG FISHING CREEK
  NEAR THE TOWNS OF READER AND PINE GROVE. IN ADDITION
  COUNTY ROADS ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTY MAY BECOME FLOODED.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

END


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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.