Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1992, 7:31 PM EDT for Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1992, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ohio County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 56 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 022329 SVRPIT PAC003-125-WVC069-030030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 731 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ALLEGHENY COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE ...OHIO COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PITTSBURGH SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM WEIRTON TO WHEELING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING..8.AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 4:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 440 PM SAT MAY 2 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING TOWARD WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA... AT 440 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HARD DOWNPOURS... DEADLY LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 55 MILES AN HOUR...AND HAIL HAD FORMED IN THE WARM MOIST AIR OVER NORTHERN OHIO AND WILL BE IN THE KEYSTONE STATE WITHIN THE HOUR. THIS LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM ASHTABULA OHIO SOUTHWEST TO MANSFIELD OHIO. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS CENTERED BETWEEN SANDUSKY AND CLEVELAND AND ALSO OVER MANSFIELD OHIO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THIS PROJECTED SPEED...THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE IN THE ERIE AREA AROUND 5 PM...IN THE FRANKLIN AREA AROUND 545 PM...PITTSBURGH WHEELING AND DUBOIS BY 630PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUT IN AN OPEN FIELD...LIE DOWN IN A CROUCHED POSITION. DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL END LATE THIS EVENING...FOLLOWED BY VERY COOL WEATHER THROUGH MOST OF NEXT WEEK. KOHLHAGEN/LEONARDON
Special weather statement, May 2, 5:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 540 PM SAT MAY 2 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA... AT 540 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HARD DOWNPOURS... DEADLY LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 55 MILES AN HOUR...AND HAIL HAD FORMED IN THE WARM MOIST AIR OVER NORTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THIS LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM JAMESTOWN NEW YORK SOUTHWEST TO ZANESVILLE OHIO. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN OVER PYMATUNING RESERVOIR...20 MILES WEST OF CANTON OHIO...10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MT. VERNON OHIO...AND JUST SOUTH OF ERIE. WITH THIS PROJECTED SPEED...THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE IN THE FRANKLIN AREA BY 615 PM...IN THE PITTSBURGH AND WHEELING AREAS BY 645PM...AND IN DUBOIS BY 715 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GET AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF CAUGHT OUT IN THE OPEN...DO NOT STAND UNDERNEATH A TALL TREE. THE SAFEST PLACE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR HALLWAY. DO NOT USE A TELEPHONE EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL END LATE THIS EVENING...FOLLOWED BY VERY COOL WEATHER THROUGH MOST OF NEXT WEEK. LEONARDON/KOHLHAGEN
Special weather statement, May 2, 6:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PAZ001>006-013>015-WVZ001-030300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UPDATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 605 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE WEST VIRGINIA NORTHERN PANHANDLE TIL 9 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND ALL OF THE CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAINS TIL 11 PM... A SQUALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM OHIO...WITH POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL COME THROUGH THE WEST VIRGINIA NORTHERN PANHANDLE AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AREA THIS EVENING. WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE COVER INDOORS...PREFERABLY WITHIN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING RAPIDLY AT 40 TO 50 MPH WILL COME THROUGH FRANKLIN BY 630...THEN BRADFORD...DUBOIS...PITTSBURGH...AND WHEELING BY AROUND 730 PM...AND JOHNSTOWN FALTOONA AND STATE COLLEGE BY AROUND 9 OR 10 PM. GIORDANO/ALESSI/REED/LEONARDON/KOHLHAGEN/WAGNER
Special weather statement, May 2, 6:40 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
PAZ001>006-013>015-WVZ001-030300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UPDATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 630 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TIL 9PM AND THE WEST VIRGINIA NORTHERN PANHANDLE TIL 10 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND ALL OF THE CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAINS TIL 11 PM... A SQUALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM OHIO...WITH POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE WEST VIRGINIA NORTHERN PANHANDLE AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AREA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE COVER INDOORS...PREFERABLY WITHIN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING...AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING RAPIDLY AT 40 TO 50 MPH IS APPROACHING FRANKLIN AND BRADFORD CURRENTLY. THE STORMS WILL REACH PITTSBURGH AND WHEELING BY 7 PM...AND WILL REACH JOHNSTOWN AROUND 9 PM AND THEN ALTOONA AND STATE COLLEGE AROUND 930 PM. SOME OF THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS JUST SOUTH OF YOUNGSTOWN OHIO ...AND WILL MOVE OVER THE MERCER AND LAWRENCE COUNTY BORDER LINE. GIORDANO/LEONARDON/KOHLHAGEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 55 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.