Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1998, 3:50 AM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 7 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 3, 1998, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1998, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 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 07:52 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 00:00Z, 7.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 11:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
1105 PM EDT SAT MAY 02 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
820 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 TUSCARAWAS SR39W NEAR DOVER SR258
BETWEEN STILLWATER AND
WESTCHESTER CR105 NORTH
OF SANDYVILLE ALL CLOSED
DUE TO HIGH WATER.
835 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 COSHOCTON NUMEROUS ROADS PARTIALLY
FLOODED BUT PASSABLE
THROUGHOUT COUNTY.
840 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 MUSKINGUM SR16 DOWN TO ONE LANE
DEAN COX DRIVE AND MCGLADE
SCHOOL ROAD BOTH CLOSED.
845 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 GUERNSEY WIDESPREAD LOW-LAND
FLOODING REPORTED. SR821
BETWEEN PLEASANT CITY AND
BYESVILLE CLOSED.
850 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 NOBLE NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED BY
HIGH WATER INCLUDINE
SR285, SR564, SR260,
SR146, SR147, AND SR821.
855 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 MONROE SR145 1/2 MILE FROM
INTERSECTION OF SR260
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.Local storm report, May 2, 11:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
1105 PM EDT SAT MAY 02 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
820 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 TUSCARAWAS SR39W NEAR DOVER SR258
BETWEEN STILLWATER AND
WESTCHESTER CR105 NORTH
OF SANDYVILLE ALL CLOSED
DUE TO HIGH WATER.
835 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 COSHOCTON NUMEROUS ROADS PARTIALLY
FLOODED BUT PASSABLE
THROUGHOUT COUNTY.
840 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 MUSKINGUM SR16 DOWN TO ONE LANE
DEAN COX DRIVE AND MCGLADE
SCHOOL ROAD BOTH CLOSED.
845 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 GUERNSEY WIDESPREAD LOW-LAND
FLOODING REPORTED. SR821
BETWEEN PLEASANT CITY AND
BYESVILLE CLOSED.
850 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 NOBLE NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED BY
HIGH WATER INCLUDINE
SR285, SR564, SR260,
SR146, SR147, AND SR821.
855 PM OH FLOODING
05/02/98 MONROE SR145 1/2 MILE FROM
INTERSECTION OF SR260
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 9:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble, Tuscarawas | 8 hr |
| May 3, 3:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 7 hr |
| May 3, 10:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 5 hr |
| May 3, 10:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 70 min |
| May 3, 3:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 7 hr |
| May 3, 4:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Noble | 5 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.