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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

February 17, 2003Belmont County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 17, 2003, 3:20 PM EST for Belmont 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
Feb 17, 2003, 3:20 PM EST (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Feb 17, 2003, 6:15 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Belmont County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-02-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-02-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 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 172024
FFWPBZ
OHC013-172315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
320 PM EST MON FEB 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EST

* AT 320 PM EST...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING   
  DUE TO AN ICE JAM ALONG WHEELING CREEK NEAR WOLFHURST. THE JAM IS  
  JUST EAST OF WOLFHURST AND WATER IS RISING RAPIDLY BEHIND THE JAM. 

  SOME OTHER LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED IN THIS AREA ARE        
  WHEELING CREEK TRAILER PARK AND GOOSETOWN.

<<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 180007
FFSPBZ
OHC013-180100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
707 PM EST MON FEB 17 2003


THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR BELMONT COUNTY. THE ORIGINAL 
ICE JAM THAT HAD FORMED ALONG WHEELING CREEK NEAR WOLFHURST HAS 
BROKEN FREE AND IS HEADING DOWNSTREAM. NO FLOODING WAS OBSERVED WITH 
THIS JAM. HOWEVER...A SECOND JAM HAS FORMED IN THE SAME LOCATION 
NEAR WOLFHURST. WATER IS ONCE AGAIN RISING BEHIND THIS JAM. LOCAL 
EMERGENCY OFFICIAL ARE MONITORING THE SITUATION AND IF FLOODING 
BECOMES IMMINENT...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ISSUED.










$$

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 Feb 17, 2:56 PM EST, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 2:56 PM EST, 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
255 PM  EST MON FEB 17 2003

UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL OHIO SLOWLY DRIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST. AT THE
SFC LOW OVER SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO WITH ENHANCED BAND OF SNOW AHEAD OF IT.
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS LOW WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY
MOVE NORTHEAST INTO AND THRU OUR CWA. WILL CONT WINTER WX ADV FOR THE
RIDGE COUNTIES EAST OF PBZ AND OUR NRN TIER OF COUNTIES TONIGHT FOR 2
TO 4 INCHES. ALSO IN THE RIDGES SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. REST OF
CWA 1 TO 3 INCHES ADDITIONAL OVERNIGHT. DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY WEAK
HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE SOUTH. HIGH PRESSURE OVER US WED INTO
THU. NEXT CHANCE OF PCPN, WHICH WILL BE RAIN, IS ON FRIDAY AS A COLD
FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. ON SATURDAY RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW WITH
COLD FRONT MOVING THRU DURING THE MORNING.

PIT   21  32  26  43 /  80  30  20  10
HLG   24  35  27  41 /  70  30  20  10
MGW   24  36  27  43 /  80  30  20  10
ZZV   24  36  27  43 /  80  30  20  10
PHD   24  35  27  41 /  70  30  20  10
FKL   19  29  24  39 /  80  30  20  10
DUJ   19  29  24  39 /  80  30  20  10
LBE   22  33  27  40 /  80  30  20  10
BTP   22  31  25  40 /  70  30  20  10
IDI   22  33  27  40 /  80  30  20  10
ODM   20  31  24  39 /  80  30  20  10

.PBZ...
MD...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONE MDZ001.

OH...NONE.
PA...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES
PAZ023...PAZ030...PAZ032.

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES PAZ007>009...
PAZ015>016.

WV...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES WVZ023...WVZ041.
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 17, 6:51 AM EST, 8 hours 29 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-171345-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
651 AM EST MON FEB 17 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND
GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

A WINTER STORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE AREA EXCEPT COUNTIES
NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80...WHERE A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN
EFFECT. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED
TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

NO SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS ANTICIPATED.

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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.