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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 28, 2000Carroll County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2000, 5:32 PM EDT for Carroll 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: Jul 28, 2000, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 1099 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPBZ 282133
FFWPBZ
OHC019-290030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
532 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 532 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA
  OF VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY NEAR
  PERRYSVILLE. RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 1.5 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN
  THE LAST HOUR.

<<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. VEHICeLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER 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 Jul 28, 3:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
303 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

LOTS OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  POSTED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 10 PM
FOR ALL OF CWA.

UPPER LOW TO THE WEST DIGS A LITTLE TO THE SOUTHWEST OVER THE NEXT
SEVERAL DAYS WITH VORT LOBES WRAPPING AROUND.  WILL REMAIN IN
SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY THROUGH
EXTENDED.

.PBZ...
MD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY FOR ZONE MDZ001.

OH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY FOR ZONES
OHZ039>041...OHZ048>050...OHZ057>059...OHZ068>069.

PA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY FOR ZONES
PAZ007>009...PAZ013>016...PAZ020>023...PAZ029>032.

WV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY FOR ZONES
WVZ001>004...WVZ012...WVZ021>023...WVZ041.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
347 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

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

0330 PM    IMPERIAL                  PA   FLOODING
07/28/00   ALLEGHENY                      ROAD FLOODING

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
352 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....3

0345 PM    BURGETTSTOWN              PA   FLOODING
07/28/00   WASHINGTON                     ROAD FLOODING

Local storm report, Jul 28, 4:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
416 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

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

0330 PM    AMBRIDGE                  PA   FLOODING
07/28/00   BEAVER                         ROAD FLOODING

Local storm report, Jul 28, 4:47 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
447 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

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

0410 PM    DRESDEN                   OH   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   MUSKINGUM

0410 PM    DRESDEN                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/00   MUSKINGUM                      TREES DOWN

0430 PM    MINERVA                   OH   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   CARROLL

Local storm report, Jul 28, 5:16 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
516 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

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

0430 PM    COSHOCTON                 OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/00   COSHOCTON                      WIRES AND LARGE LIMBS DOWN
                                          E OF COSHOCTON ON COUNTY
                                          ROAD 16.

NNNN

Local storm report, Jul 28, 5:26 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
526 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

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

0524 PM    PERRYVILLE                OH   1 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   CARROLL                        QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN
                                          PERRYVILLE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum	60 min
Jul 28, 1:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	66 min
Jul 28, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	64 min
Jul 28, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey	61 min
Jul 28, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	59 min
Jul 28, 4:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	3 hr
Jul 28, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	63 min
Jul 28, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	64 min
Jul 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	56 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.