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Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 16, 2026Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2026, 12:08 AM 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: Aug 16, 2026, 12:08 AM EDT (04:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2026, 3:15 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Muskingum County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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 00:00Z, 4.1 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Aug 15, 8:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 8:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 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
Aug 16, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Lawrence, Washington	45 min
Aug 16, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Beaver	18 min
Aug 16, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Washington	40 min
Aug 16, 3:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler	23 min
Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene, Washington	50 min
Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Westmoreland	49 min
Aug 16, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Greene	40 min
Aug 16, 4:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Washington	5 hr
Aug 16, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Westmoreland	45 min
Aug 16, 4:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Indiana, Westmoreland	26 min
Aug 16, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Westmoreland	20 min
Aug 16, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	16 min
Aug 16, 6:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Venango	5 hr
Aug 16, 7:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Jefferson	3 hr
Aug 16, 1:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Noble	5 hr
Aug 16, 2:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Tuscarawas	3 hr
Aug 16, 2:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe	3 hr
Aug 16, 6:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	6 hr
Aug 16, 6:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe, Muskingum, Noble	13 hr
Aug 16, 1:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas	41 min
Aug 16, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas	51 min
Aug 16, 1:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	3 hr
Aug 16, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson	52 min
Aug 16, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Harrison, Tuscarawas	35 min
Aug 16, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Muskingum, Noble, Tuscarawas	46 min
Aug 16, 2:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson	26 min
Aug 16, 2:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Noble	23 min
Aug 16, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	37 min
Aug 16, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble and 1 more	43 min
Aug 16, 6:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum	4 hr
Aug 16, 6:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	4 hr
Aug 16, 7:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Noble	3 hr
Aug 16, 8:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tucker	3 hr
Aug 16, 11:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Tucker	3 hr
Aug 16, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monongalia, Preston	32 min
Aug 16, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston, Tucker	50 min

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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.