Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 8:47 PM EDT for Guernsey County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 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 00:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:07 PM EDT, 5 hours 40 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
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-022>023-041-110000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 550 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...FLOOD WATCH FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS CONTINUES TONIGHT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA.... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 10 PM FOR WESTERN PA NORTH OF OF PITTSBURGH... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 11 PM FOR THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA AND EAST-CENTRAL OHIO... THE FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF WESTERN PA...EAST- CENTRAL OHIO...EXTREME NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...INCLUDING THE PANHANDLE ...AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TIL 10 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN PA... MERCER... VENANGO... FOREST... CLARION... JEFFERSON... LAWRENCE... BUTLER... ARMSTRONG... AND INDIANA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM FOR THESE COUNTIES IN EAST-CENTRAL OHIO... COSHOCTON... MUSKINGUM... TUSCARAWAS... GUERNSEY... CARROLL... COLUMBIANA... JEFFERSON... HARRISON... BELMONT... NOBLE... AND MONROE. AND IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... HANCOCK... BROOKE... OHIO... MARSHALL... AND WETZEL. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD INTO EAST-CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHWEST PA. MORE STORMS ARE APPROACHING FROM WESTERN OHIO. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. REHAK/SISK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 58 min |
| May 10, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 45 min |
| May 11, 11:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 5 hr |
| May 11, 11:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Venango | 5 hr |
| May 11, 11:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 5 hr |
| May 11, 3:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Forest | 6 hr |
| May 10, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
| May 10, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison | 56 min |
| May 11, 9:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 4 hr |
| May 11, 9:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana | 3 hr |
| May 11, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana | 3 hr |
| May 11, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 6 hr |
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.