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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 28, 1997Belmont County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 12:50 PM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 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 28, 1997, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1997, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Belmont County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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 28, 12:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	St Clairsville, OH	Power lines and trees were downed by thunderstorm winds throughout the county.
Jul 28, 1:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Yorkville, OH	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a metal shed.

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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 448 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, Jul 28, 12:03 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
1203 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON                OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    COSHOCTON                      TREE LIMBS DOWN

Local storm report, Jul 28, 12:04 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
1203 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene, Washington	64 min
Jul 28, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	62 min
Jul 28, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	49 min
Jul 27, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	60 min
Jul 27, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Noble	60 min
Jul 28, 11:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	55 min
Jul 28, 11:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	63 min
Jul 28, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	51 min
Jul 28, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	27 min
Jul 28, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	29 min
Jul 28, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	49 min
Jul 28, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	60 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	41 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston	41 min
Jul 28, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tucker	42 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.