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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 20, 1995Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 11:50 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1995, 11:50 PM EDT (03:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1995, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Muskingum County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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: 2529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Jun 20, 8:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 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
Jun 21, 12:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	66 min
Jun 21, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	68 min
Jun 21, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana, Westmoreland	62 min
Jun 21, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Jefferson	67 min
Jun 21, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	67 min
Jun 21, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Forest	67 min
Jun 21, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion	63 min
Jun 21, 4:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Mercer	114 min
Jun 21, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	114 min
Jun 21, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Washington	80 min
Jun 21, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Jefferson	80 min
Jun 21, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	55 min
Jun 21, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Venango	70 min
Jun 21, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler	77 min
Jun 21, 5:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Venango	57 min
Jun 21, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Venango	57 min
Jun 21, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Lawrence	26 min
Jun 21, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Forest, Jefferson	45 min
Jun 21, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	44 min
Jun 21, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	50 min
Jun 21, 5:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	3 hr
Jun 21, 5:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	3 hr
Jun 21, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	63 min
Jun 21, 3:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	2 hr
Jun 21, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	67 min
Jun 21, 3:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	85 min
Jun 21, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	85 min
Jun 21, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	63 min
Jun 21, 5:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	115 min
Jun 21, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	67 min
Jun 21, 6:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	41 min
Jun 21, 6:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	3 hr
Jun 21, 6:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Carroll	35 min
Jun 21, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	57 min
Jun 21, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	44 min
Jun 21, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Hancock	31 min
Jun 21, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	38 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.