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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 2, 19984 counties in Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1998, 12:00 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. 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, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1998, 4:04 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Guernsey County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:01 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 12:00Z on 1998-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1998-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 021604
FFWPIT
OHC059-111-119-121-021954-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1200 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GUERNSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
  MONROE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
  NOBLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
  MUSKINGUM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
  
* UNTIL 404 PM EDT

* RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNING COUNTIES.
FLOODING CONTINUED IN NORTHERN MUSKINGUM COUNTY NEAR ADAMSVILLE.
MINOR ROAD FLOODING WAS REPORTED COUNTY-WIDE IN GUERNSEY COUNTY.
SEVERAL ROADS WERE FLOODED IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NOBLE COUNTY.
ROUTE 78W IN WESTERN MONROE COUNTY REMAINS FLOODED WITH ONLY 1 LANE
OPEN.
THE FLOOD WARNING FOR COSHOCTON COUNTY HAS EXPIRED.
RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS THE AREA AND WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH
AT 10 MPH.

* STREAMS REMAIN FLOODED DUE TO RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINS

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

WJD


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 4:57 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Noble4 hr
May 2, 5:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton4 hr
May 2, 5:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe4 hr
May 2, 8:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum4 hr
May 2, 9:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe, Noble3 hr
May 2, 9:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey3 hr
May 2, 3:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble6 hr
May 2, 3:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas6 hr
May 2, 3:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe6 hr

Nearby

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.