Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1998, 5:27 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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 16, 1998, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 9:26 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbiana County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 162126 FFWPIT OHC029-170126- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVIATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 527 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COLUMBIANA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 926 PM EDT. * AT 530 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.. * RAINFALL OF UP TO 2 INCHES IN AN HOUR FELL NEAR WEST POINT. RAPID STREAM RISES CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE HEAVY RAIN.. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! .END/RSD
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 16, 4:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
403 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM ZANESVILLE OH WIND DAMAGE
06/16/98 MUSKINGUM TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE
0307 PM CAMBRIDGE OH WIND DAMAGE
06/16/98 GUERNSEY TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE
0340 PM WOODSFIELD OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 MONROE
0400 PM CADIZ OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 HARRISONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum, Noble | 3 hr |
| 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 |
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.