Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 1996, 7:08 PM EDT for Coshocton County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 29, 1996, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coshocton County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Coshocton, OH | |
| Apr 29, 7:47 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Coshocton, OH |
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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 292307 TORPIT OHC031-300000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 708 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...COSHOCTON COUNTY AT 7PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...WITH ROTATIO...IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THE CITY OF COSHOCTON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS DANGEROUS STORM CAN CAUSE VERY DAMAGING WIND...TORNADOES... LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING. SEEK SAFETY IN ST"RONG BUILDINGS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN AND COVER YOUR HEAD. ABANDON VEHICLES. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN TORNADOES. NEVER CROSS FLOODING TO GO TO HIGH GROUND. PM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison | 66 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.