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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 26, 1998Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 2:51 PM EDT for Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 59 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, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Preston County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 3:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Terra Alta, WV	Thunderstorm winds blew several large trees down.

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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 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

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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

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
122 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0117 PM    WOODSFIELD                OH   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   MONROE

Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
122 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0117 PM    WOODSFIELD                OH   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   MONROE

Local storm report, Jun 26, 2:31 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
231 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0222 PM    DAYBROOK                  WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   MONONGALIA                     LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	58 min
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, 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.