Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 1996, 1:02 PM EDT for Monroe County, Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 19, 1996, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 1:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Graysville, OH | |
| Jul 19, 1:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Graysville, 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 191702 TORPIT OHC111-121-191745- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 102 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...MONROE COUNTY...NOBLE COUNTY PITTSBURGH DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER EASTERN NOBLE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MONROE COUNTY. IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOURSELF. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 19, 9:14 AM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
915 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1145 PM RYERSON STATION PA FLOODING
07/18/96 GREENE SOUTH FORK OF THE WHEELING
CREEK FLOODED AND DELPHENE
ROAD FLOODED.
1230 AM BLACKSVILLE WV FLOODING.
07/19/96 MONONGALIA SCOTT RUN FLOODED.
SR 7W FLOODED.
HOMES EVACUATED.
1230 AM WADESTOWN WV FLOODING.
07/19/96 MONONGALIA WADE RUN AND SR 7 FLOOED.
0100 AM OAK FOREST PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 GREENE PURSLEY CREEK FLOODING.
1215 AM MCMECHAN WV FLOODING
07/19/96 MARSHALL HOMES FLOODED. MUDSLIDES.
1215 AM ADALINE WV FLOODING.
07/19/96 MARSHALL FISH CREEK FLOODING.
BRIDGE WASHED OUT.
0330 AM JOLLYTOWN PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 GREENE DUNKARDS CREEK FLOODED.
0400 AM BLACKSVILLE WV FLOODING.
07/19/96 MONONGALIA DUNKARDS CREEK FLOODED.
0500 AM OIL CITY PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 VENANGO SR 8 322 AND 428 FLOODED.
0515 AM CLARION PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 CLARION NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED.
0530 AM PUNXATAWNEY PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 JEFFERSON SR 36 FLOODED.
0815 AM MORGANTOWN WV FLOODING.
07/19/96 MONONGALIA RADIO STATION FLOODED.
0600 AM REYNOLDSVILLE PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 JEFFERSON POST OFFICE FLOODED.
0815 AM DUNBAR PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 FAYETTE ROADS FLOODED.
SMALL STREAMS FLOODED.
0830 AM JOLLYTOWN PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 GREENE DUNKARDS CREEK FLOODING
AGAIN.
0830 AM BLACKSVILLE WV FLOODING.
07/19/96 MONONGALIA DUNKARDS CREEK FLOODING
AGAIN.
0830 AM UNIONTOWN PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 FAYETTE STREETS FLOODED.
0830 AM ^ CONNELLSVILLE PA FLOODING.
07/19/96 FAYETTE STREETS FLOODED.
GIORDANO/PALKO/REEDSpecial weather statement, Jul 19, 12:10 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029>032-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1210 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH TIL 6PM... THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 6PM IN WESTERN PA CLARION ELK JEFFERSON MERCER VENANGO ALLEGHENY ARMSTRONG BEAVER BUTLER FAYETTE GREENE INDIANA LAWRENCE WASHINrGTON WESTMORELAND A TORNADO WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THIS AREA. KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 10:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 2:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.