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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 15, 1998Muskingum County, Noble County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 494 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum58 min
Jun 16, 2:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum4 hr
Jun 16, 3:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Noble4 hr
Jun 16, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Noble57 min
Jun 16, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe59 min
Jun 16, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont59 min
Jun 16, 3:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe4 hr
Jun 16, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHarrison, Tuscarawas55 min
Jun 16, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson59 min
Jun 16, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana60 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZColumbiana4 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.