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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 4, 2002Guernsey County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 3:08 PM EDT for Guernsey 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 4, 2002, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Guernsey County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

992 
WGUS51 KPBZ 041908
FFWPBZ
OHC059-042200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
307 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GUERNSEY COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 307 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED REPEATED
HEAVY RAINS MOVING ACROSS GUERNSEY COUNTY.

<<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.





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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 11:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	61 min
Jun 4, 12:47 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	4 hr
Jun 4, 1:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont	5 hr
Jun 4, 10:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	56 min
Jun 4, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	65 min
Jun 4, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	59 min
Jun 4, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	62 min
Jun 4, 2:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	3 hr
Jun 4, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	62 min
Jun 4, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	61 min
Jun 4, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	65 min
Jun 4, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	65 min
Jun 4, 4:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	43 min
Jun 4, 4:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Carroll	47 min
Jun 4, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	63 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.