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River Flood Warning 41, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

December 13, 2007Belmont County, Jefferson County, Ohio; Ohio County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2007, 10:01 PM EST for Belmont County, Jefferson County, Ohio; Ohio County, West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 15, 2007, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 13, 2007, 10:01 PM EST (03:01 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 15, 2007, 3:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 14, 2007, 11:16 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Belmont County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Ohio County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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 river

Written for the forecast point Ohio River at Pike Island Lock and Dam (WHLW2).

Action stage: 26.4 ft
Minor stage: 37 ft
Moderate stage: 39 ft
Major stage: 43 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03111520, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Dec 13, 9:37 PM EST, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 9:37 PM EST, 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 13, 4:58 PM EST, 5 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 13, 5:56 PM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 13, 10:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	13 hr
Dec 14, 2:49 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest and 6 more	26 hr
Dec 14, 3:24 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence and 2 more	61 hr
Dec 13, 10:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont	13 hr
Dec 13, 10:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Noble	13 hr
Dec 13, 10:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	24 hr
Dec 13, 10:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Marshall	13 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2007 River Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2007 Every river flood warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.