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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 10, 1996Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 5:06 PM EDT for Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 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 10, 1996, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coshocton County, OH, Muskingum County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 102108
SVRPIT
OHC031-119-102215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
506 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...COSHOCTON COUNTY...MUSKINGUM COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR IN PITTSBURGH INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO
COSHOCTON AND MUSKINGUM COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR SAFETY GO TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. SEVERLE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. HEAVY RAINS CAN
QUICKLY CAUSE FLOODING. DO NOT CROSS WHERE WATER COVERS YOUR PATH.

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 10, 3:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-110800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
305 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED AGAIN TONIGHT...

WARM AND HUMID AIR IS MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION. THIS IS
IN RESPONSE TO A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH IS SLOWLY MAKING ITS WAY
EASTWARD THROUGH THE MIDWEST. AS THIS FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH
EASTWARD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION
TONIGHT.

THE POTENTIAL EXISTS THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH COULD CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS
TO REACH OR EXCEDE BANKFULL. WITH THE BEST THREAT FOR HEAVY
RAIN...LATER TONIGHT.

IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM BE ALERT TO THE PRESENT WATER LEVEL
AND WATCH FOR ADDITIONAL RISES IF RAIN DOES OCCUR.

IN RESPONSE TO THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN
ISSUED FOR THE REGION TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO
...THE WEATHER CHANNEL OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO
STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

RRR/DS/JMP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 4:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	3 hr
May 10, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Tuscarawas	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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.