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Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 26, 1998Guernsey County, Harrison County, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT for Guernsey County, Harrison County, Tuscarawas 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 26, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 262358
FFWPIT
OHC059-067-157-270300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVIATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
800 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GUERNSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO.
  HARRISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO.
  TUSCARAWAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO.

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT.

* NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS WITH
  TORRENTIAL RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN TUSCARAWAS COUNTY...NORTHERN
  GUERNSEY COUNTY...AND MUCH OF HARRISON COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* MORE HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL ACROSS THE WARNING AREA...WHERE
  THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DUMPED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODING.

.END/REHAK

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 26, 3:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
355 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0220 PM    COUNTY-WIDE               WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   MARION                         TREES DOWN COUNTY-WIDE. A
                                          COUPLE OF TREES FELL INTO
                                          HOMES.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
625 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0613 PM    FINLEYVILLE               PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
745 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0615 PM    LAWRENCE HILLS            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0620 PM    MC MURRAY                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0630 PM    1 E CANONSBURG            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0738 PM    GNADENHUTTEN              OH   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   TUSCARAWAS

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
745 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0615 PM    LAWRENCE HILLS            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0620 PM    MC MURRAY                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0630 PM    1 E CANONSBURG            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0738 PM    GNADENHUTTEN              OH   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   TUSCARAWAS

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:52 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
752 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 PM    ST CLAIRSVILLE            OH   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   BELMONT

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:00 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
800 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0758 PM    MOUNDSVILLE               WV   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   MARSHALL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	58 min
Jun 26, 8:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	3 hr
Jun 26, 8:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont	3 hr
Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	55 min
Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	60 min
Jun 26, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	54 min
Jun 26, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	59 min
Jun 26, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Noble	57 min
Jun 26, 9:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	3 hr
Jun 26, 11:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Tuscarawas	5 hr
Jun 26, 11:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe	4 hr
Jun 27, 2:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	2 hr
Jun 27, 4:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Muskingum	3 hr
Jun 27, 7:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Muskingum	5 hr
Jun 27, 8:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	2 hr
Jun 27, 9:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	58 min
Jun 27, 9:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey	3 hr
Jun 27, 10:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	2 hr
Jun 27, 11:38 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	2 hr
Jun 27, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Tuscarawas	76 min
Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	40 min
Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas	4 hr
Jun 27, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	58 min
Jun 27, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	31 min
Jun 27, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	60 min
Jun 27, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Harrison	73 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	31 min
Jun 27, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	58 min
Jun 27, 6:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Harrison	4 hr
Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	63 min
Jun 27, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	29 min
Jun 27, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	61 min
Jun 27, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Noble	59 min
Jun 27, 7:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	4 hr
Jun 27, 7:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	4 hr
Jun 27, 7:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	27 min
Jun 27, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Noble	59 min
Jun 27, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	69 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.