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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 15, 2004Guernsey County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 1:55 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2004, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Guernsey County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 2004-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 372 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
372 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPBZ 151758
FFWPBZ
OHC059-152100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
155 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 154 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED UP TO AN INCH AND ONE HALF 
  OF RAIN HAS ALREADY OCCURRED WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN ON THE WAY. THIS 
  WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES IN STREAMS AND CREEKS. AREAS ALONG          
  CROOKED CREEK HAVE BEEN THE HARDEST HIT.

<<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.

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.

LAT...LON 4014 8126 3998 8127 3989 8166 4018 8164

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey54 min
Jun 14, 8:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey3 hr
Jun 14, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble45 min
Jun 15, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey60 min
Jun 15, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas62 min
Jun 15, 2:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll3 hr
Jun 15, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll57 min
Jun 15, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson60 min
Jun 15, 3:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZHarrison3 hr
Jun 15, 3:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZJefferson3 hr
Jun 15, 4:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZColumbiana3 hr
Jun 15, 5:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZNoble3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.