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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 26, 1998Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Tuscarawas County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1998-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3262 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 1998-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 214 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:22 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 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, 4 hours 38 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, 3 hours 29 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
Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
317 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

0240 PM    MORGANTOWN                WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   MONONGALIA                     LARGE LIMBS DOWN

0300 PM    TERRA ALTA                WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   PRESTON                        TREES DOWN

0315 PM    FRIENDSVILLE              MD   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   GARRETT                        TREES DOWN
Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
355 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

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

0220 PM    COUNTY-WIDE               WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   MARION                         TREES DOWN COUNTY-WIDE. A
                                          COUPLE OF TREES FELL INTO
                                          HOMES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe58 min
Jun 26, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum, Noble57 min
Jun 26, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll59 min
Jun 26, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson60 min
Jun 26, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum24 min
Jun 26, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey55 min
Jun 26, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll52 min
Jun 26, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson55 min
Jun 26, 6:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZJefferson3 hr
Jun 26, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHarrison60 min
Jun 26, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas43 min
Jun 26, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Guernsey55 min
Jun 26, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette45 min
Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington56 min
Jun 26, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny60 min
Jun 26, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland63 min
Jun 26, 5:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZWashington47 min
Jun 26, 6:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWashington3 hr
Jun 26, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington58 min
Jun 26, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel57 min
Jun 26, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia75 min
Jun 26, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston59 min
Jun 26, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHancock28 min
Jun 26, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBrooke30 min
Jun 26, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHancock54 min
Jun 26, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.