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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 28, 1997Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 1:16 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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, 1:16 PM EDT (17:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1997, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 28, 1:20 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMoundsville, WVA tree and some large branches were downed by thunderstorm winds.

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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1997-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 448 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1997-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIT 281713 RRA
SVRPIT
WVC051-281745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
116 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE
 
   ...MARSHALL COUNTY
 
AT 110 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
MOUNDSVILLE. THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH MOUNDSVILLE...GLENDALE...
GLEN EASTON AND CAMERON AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.
DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR APPLIANCES UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 1 hour 13 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, 1 hour 12 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
Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:00 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
100 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

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN
Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:01 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
100 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

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel49 min
Jul 28, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel60 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia41 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston41 min
Jul 28, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.