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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 19, 2002Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2002, 4:23 PM EDT for Muskingum 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 19, 2002, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Muskingum County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1067 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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 192023
FFWPBZ
OHC119-192315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
420 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED           
  TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER PARTS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. OVER 2 INCHES  
  OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND MORE HEAVY RAIN   
  WILL OCCUR. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...ZANESVILLE...             
  PHILO...PLEASANT GROVE...

<<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.

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KPBZ 192101
FFSPBZ
OHC119-192200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
500 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002


THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO UNTIL 
715 PM.

HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES FROM SOUTH OF ZANESVILLE TO NEAR DUNCAN FALLS. 
OVER 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. ROUTE 
555 NORTH OF STOVERTOWN AND AREAS ALONG BRUSH CREEK HAVE RECEIVED 
THE HEAVIEST RAIN. 

BE ALERT FOR FLOODING ALONG BRUSH CREEK AND WATCH FOR FLOODED ROADS. 
ALSO...WATER WILL COLLECT RAPIDLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE 
THROUGH ANY FLOODED ROADWAY.








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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont	3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.