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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 26, 1998Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 7:54 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 min. 4 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: Jun 26, 1998, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 8:20 PM EDT
In force: 26 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 23:55 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
Jun 26, 7:58 PM EDT	Hail 1	Moundsville, WV
Jun 26, 8:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Glendale, WV
Jun 26, 8:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Moundsville, WV	Thunderstorm winds blew three large trees down.
Jun 26, 8:13 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Moundsville, WV

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, 11.9 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-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

Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:17 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 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, 3 hours 59 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.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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

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

0613 PM    FINLEYVILLE               PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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

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

0615 PM    LAWRENCE HILLS            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0620 PM    MC MURRAY                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0630 PM    1 E CANONSBURG            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0738 PM    GNADENHUTTEN              OH   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   TUSCARAWAS

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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

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

0615 PM    LAWRENCE HILLS            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0620 PM    MC MURRAY                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0630 PM    1 E CANONSBURG            PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WASHINGTON                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0738 PM    GNADENHUTTEN              OH   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   TUSCARAWAS

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:52 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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

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

0750 PM    ST CLAIRSVILLE            OH   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   BELMONT

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, 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

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.