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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 5, 1996Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 2:56 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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
May 5, 1996, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
64 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 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 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
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
May 5, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene63 min
May 5, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette60 min
May 5, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe57 min
May 5, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble57 min
May 5, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey55 min
May 5, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe55 min
May 4, 9:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker4 hr
May 5, 12:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker3 hr
May 5, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker68 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.