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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 11, 2019Carroll County, Coshocton County, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2019, 4:42 PM EDT for Carroll County, Coshocton County, Tuscarawas 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 11, 2019, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2019, 7:19 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Carroll County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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-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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 Jul 11, 3:48 PM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:48 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 3:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 11, 3:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 3:46 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 3:54 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 4:19 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 4:35 PM EDT, 7 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
Jul 11, 7:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Allegheny	2 hr
Jul 11, 8:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	4 hr
Jul 11, 8:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	3 hr
Jul 11, 8:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	116 min
Jul 11, 9:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Butler	29 min
Jul 11, 10:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler	3 hr
Jul 11, 10:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver	99 min
Jul 11, 10:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland	3 hr
Jul 11, 12:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Greene	3 hr
Jul 11, 1:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 4 more	7 hr
Jul 11, 1:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Fayette	3 hr
Jul 11, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Lawrence, Mercer	65 min
Jul 11, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Lawrence	26 min
Jul 11, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler	33 min
Jul 11, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	39 min
Jul 11, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	46 min
Jul 11, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	13 min
Jul 11, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Greene	41 min
Jul 11, 6:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Greene, Washington	93 min
Jul 11, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Greene	35 min
Jul 11, 7:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	3 hr
Jul 11, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Jefferson	27 min
Jul 11, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana	52 min
Jul 11, 2:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Jefferson	5 hr
Jul 11, 2:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana	8 min
Jul 11, 3:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	4 hr
Jul 11, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Tuscarawas	41 min
Jul 11, 3:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana	3 hr
Jul 11, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Harrison, Tuscarawas	34 min
Jul 11, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	26 min
Jul 11, 4:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas	3 hr
Jul 11, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Harrison	28 min
Jul 11, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Tuscarawas	19 min
Jul 11, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Carroll	24 min
Jul 11, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Noble	47 min
Jul 11, 5:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Muskingum, Tuscarawas	118 min
Jul 11, 6:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey	2 hr
Jul 11, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	46 min
Jul 11, 12:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Ohio	24 min
Jul 11, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	33 min
Jul 11, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Preston	27 min
Jul 11, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Brooke, Ohio	29 min
Jul 11, 2:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Preston	3 hr
Jul 11, 3:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Preston, Tucker	118 min
Jul 11, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	36 min
Jul 11, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Taylor	48 min

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.