Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, 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
County Tuscarawas County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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, 7.8 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
- 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 021941 RRA FFWPIT OHC031-059-111-119-121-157-030200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 345 PM 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 MUSKINGUM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO TUSCARAWAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE INTO AREAS ALREADY SATURATED FROM RAINFALL EARLIER TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE CAUSING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN. * MUSKINGUM COUNTY REPORTS STATE ROUTE 16 AT ADAMSVILLE WAS CLOSED WITH TWO AND A HALF TO THREE FEET OF WATER ON IT. STATE ROUTE 208 FROM ADAMSVILLE TO DRESDEN HAD PORTIONS WHERE WATER WAS ON THE ROADWAY. COSHOCTON COUNTY...THE RIVER GAUGE AT COSHOCTON ON THE MUSKINGUM RIVER HAS JUST BROKEN 13 FEET WHICH IS FLOOD STAGE AND IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD THROUGH 10 PM. GUERNSEY COUNTY REPORTED SEVERAL MINOR ROADS FLOODING NEAR CAMBRIDGE. MONROE COUNTY REPORTED WATER ALMOST ON STATE ROUTE 379 AND STATE ROUTE 78 WEST OF LEWISVILLE AND NEAR CALAIS. TUSCARAWAS COUNTY REPORTED FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! AT NIGHT IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE THE DANGER OF FLOODING. RWH
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
COUNTYThe 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, 9:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey | 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 | Monroe | 6 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.