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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 5, 1996Greene County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 4:57 PM EDT for Greene County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1996, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Greene County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 5, 5:20 PM EDTHail 0.75Oak Forest, PA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette60 min
May 5, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum64 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 Pennsylvania, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.