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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

April 29, 1996Guernsey County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 7:44 PM EDT for Guernsey County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1996, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Guernsey County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 468 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
468 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
783 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Muskingum58 min
Apr 29, 7:08 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZCoshocton52 min
Apr 29, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas62 min
Apr 29, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll, Harrison66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.