Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1998, 8:13 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Noble 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
- Jun 15, 1998, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 160016 FFWPIT OHC119-121-160300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVIATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 813 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NOBLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO. MUSKINGUM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. * AT 810 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH THROUGH MUSKINGUM COUNTY AND NOBLE COUNTY. * ROAD AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING HAVE BEGUN TO OCCUR NEAR GAYSPORT IN SOUTHERN MUSKINGUM COUNTY. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. .END/REED/GIORDANO
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, Jun 15, 4:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
412 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM VANDERBILT PA WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 FAYETTE HOUSE PORCH AND TREES
DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 2:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Noble | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Noble | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 3:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison, Tuscarawas | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 4 hr |
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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.