Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Issued

Aug 12, 2001, 12:07 PM EDT (16:07 UTC)

Expired

Aug 12, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Belmont County, OH, Monroe County, OH

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS51 KPBZ 121610
FFWPBZ
OHC013-111-121830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1207 PM EDT SUN AUG 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BELMONT COUNTY IN OHIO
  MONROE COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. THESE   
  STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING RAINFALL OF UP TO 1.5 INCHES IN 
  AN HOUR OR LESS. THESE STORMS HAVE CAUSED FLOODING IN OTHER        
  LOCATIONS. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...WOODSFIELD...
  ST CLAIRSVILLE...ARMSTRONG MILLS...BARNESVILLE AND BEASVILLE.

<<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 WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 12, 3:03 AM EDT, 9 hours 4 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
303 AM EDT SUN AUG 12 2001

WL ISSUE FFA FOR SOUTHERN COUNTIES, DOVETAILING WITH RLXS WATCH. JUST
CANT GET RID OF THIS FRONT IN THE ZONAL FLOW WITH THE OCNL SHORT WAVES
MOVG OVER THE HI-MOISTURE ENVIRONMENT. BEST UPWARD MOTION IS N, W/
DEPARTING JET, BUT BEST LIFTED INDEX AND CAPE ARE S. PRECIP WATER
1.5-1.8 AGAIN.

NOTICEABLE VORT MAX REACHES PKB AT 12Z THIS MRNG. THOUGHT E OH WOULD BE
RAIN-FREE THIS AFTN, BUT AVN MODEL IS SLOWER WITH SFC LO. WHILE ETA
PUSHES SFC LOW TO JST, THIS AFTN, AVN STILL HAS IT BTWN DAY-CMH. WL
HAVE TO KEEP RAIN IN OHIO AND POINTS E ALL DAY. NOT BRAVE ENUF TO GIVE
TIMING. AVN PCPN ALSO HANGS FURTHER W, WHILE ETA PUSHES PCPN E TOO FAR.

AVN POPS ARE MUCH TOO LOW. WL FOLLOW HIER NGM POPS. QUITE A BIT OF
MOIST CONV JUST E OF PIT AFT 21Z TDA. SE ZONES WL HAVE HIEST POPS...A
LTL LOWER N.

.PBZ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 4 PM OHZ057>059-068-069-WVZ004-012-
       021>023-041-PAZ031-032-MDZ001.

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.