Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1998, 9:03 AM EDT for Coshocton County, Guernsey 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
- May 2, 1998, 9:03 AM EDT (13:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1998, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:05 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 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 021307 FFWPIT OHC031-059-111-121-021550- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 903 AM EDT SAT MAY 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... COSHOCTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO GUERNSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO MONROE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO NOBLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL NOON EDT * DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS THAT RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL IN THE AFFECTED AREA. RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL EARLIER THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RUN OVER THEIR BANKS. * STATE ROUTE 16 CONTINUED TO BE FLOODED IN LOWLYING AREAS IN MUSKINGUM COUNTY. IN MONROE COUNTY ROUTE 78 WEST HAD ONE LANE OPEN DUE TO FLOODING NEAR THE NOBLE COUNTY LINE. FLOODING OF ROUTES 821 AND 339 IN NOBLE COUNTY CONTINUED. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. RWH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Noble | 4 hr |
| May 2, 5:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 4 hr |
| May 2, 5:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 4 hr |
| May 2, 8:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 4 hr |
| May 2, 9:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 3 hr |
| May 2, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 4 hr |
| May 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble | 6 hr |
| May 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 6 hr |
| May 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.