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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 2, 19984 counties in Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 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, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 2, 1:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
105 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0800 AM    ADAMS MILLS               OH   FLOODING
05/02/98   MUSKINGUM                      SR 16 FLOODED

0835 AM    COUNTY-WIDE               OH   FLOODING
05/02/98   GUERNSEY                       MINOR ROAD FLOODING
                                          COUNTY-WIDE

0455 AM    SOUTHERN PART             OH   FLOODING
05/02/98   NOBLE                          ROAD FLOODING ALONG ROUTES
                                          821 AND 339 IN SOUTHERN
                                          PART OF COUNTY

1130 AM    2 E DRESDEN               OH   FLOODING
05/02/98   MUSKINGUM                      SR 208 FLOODED

1135 AM    SOUTHEAST PART            OH   FLOODING
05/02/98   NOBLE                          ROAD FLOODING ALONG ROUTE
                                          564 IN SOUTHEAST PART OF
                                          COUNTY

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, 12:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble4 hr
May 2, 3:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas6 hr
May 2, 3:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonroe6 hr
May 2, 6:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWetzel4 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.