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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 1:10 PM EDT for Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 26, 1998, 1:10 PM EDT (17:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 2:08 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:17 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Woodsfield, 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 3262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.4
- Supercell composite
- 15.4
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
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum, Noble | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 6:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 5:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 6:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia | 75 min |
| Jun 26, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 26 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.