Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2000, 3:38 PM EDT for Coshocton County, Harrison County, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 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 28, 2000, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coshocton County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPBZ 281941 FFWPBZ OHC031-067-157-290145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 338 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HARRISON COUNTY IN OHIO TUSCARAWAS COUNTY IN OHIO COSHOCTON COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 330 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MOVED THROUGH THESE COUNTIES. RAINFALL OF UP TO 1 INCH IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME HAS CAUSED SOME MINOR FLOODING. MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE EVENING HOURS. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...WEST LAFAYETTE...TUSCARAWAS... SCIO...JEWETT...GNADENHUTTEN...DENNISON AND HOPEDALE. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATEHR SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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.
NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 28, 2:54 PM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:54 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 254 PM EDT MAY 28 2000 UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE SE TO CENTRAL VA BY MON AM. WILL REMAIN IN DIFFLUENT ZN FOR AT LEAST PART OF THE NIGHT. EXPECT TO SEE WRAPAROUND PRECIP ESPECIALLY ACROSS SRN PA AND NRN WEST VA. WITH AREA ALREADY PRIMED WITH RAIN FROM THIS MRNG AND MORE WVS OF PRECIP BEING GENERATED UNDER COLD UPPER LOW WILL KEEP FF WATCH AS EARLIER ISSUED. PRECIP COULD BE SLOW TO PULL OUT IN MORNING ESP SRN TIERS. COULD ALSO BE LINGERING DRIZZLE ESP IN OUR NRN TIER. WEAK RIDGE BETWEEN LOW OFF MID ATLANTIC AND LOW IN THE PLAINS BUILDS DOWN AND MAY PROVIDE SOME DRYING FOR MEMORIAL DAY AFTN. FLOW TURNS TO SW LATER ON TUES WITH MODELS TRYING TO GENERATE OVERRUNNING PRCIP TO NW IN NRN OH. FOR NOW WILL LEAVE OUT OF FA COUNTING ON BUILDING RIDGE AND WHATEVER IS GENERATED TO MOVE TO THE NE. TEMPS SIMILAR TO MOS THOUGH MAY DROP A TAD FOR TNGTS MINS. .PBZ...FFA TIL 10 PM MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ020-021-029>032- WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-282157-
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 11:07 AM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1107 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-282200- ALLEGHENY PA-ARMSTRONG PA-BEAVER PA-BELMONT OH-BROOKE WV-BUTLER PA- CARROLL OH-CLARION PA-COLUMBIANA OH-COSHOCTON OH-FAYETTE PA- FOREST PA-GARRETT MD-GREENE PA-GUERNSEY OH-HANCOCK WV-HARRISON OH- INDIANA PA-JEFFERSON OH-JEFFERSON PA-LAWRENCE PA-MARION WV- MARSHALL WV-MERCER PA-MONONGALIA WV-MONROE OH-MUSKINGUM OH-NOBLE OH- OHIO WV-PRESTON WV-TUCKER WV-TUSCARAWAS OH-VENANGO PA-WASHINGTON PA- WESTMORELAND PA-WETZEL WV- 1107 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000 ...RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON... THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRIMARILY FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70...AND FOR NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL...BUT DAMAGING WIND CANNOT BE RULED OUT. AREAS FURTHER NORTH...FROM STEUBENVILLE TO PITTSBURGH NORTHWARD...MAY HAVE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 10 PM TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST PENNNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND DUE TO POSSIBLE HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson | 6 hr |
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.