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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 29, 1998Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 5:24 AM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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 29, 1998, 5:24 AM EDT (09:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 6:15 AM EDT
In force: 51 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 09:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 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-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: 2035 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.6

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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 29, 12:17 AM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 2:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 2:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:10 AM EDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	58 min
Jun 28, 8:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	4 hr
Jun 28, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Noble	55 min
Jun 28, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	61 min
Jun 28, 9:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	13 hr
Jun 28, 9:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Harrison, Monroe	13 hr
Jun 28, 9:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	13 hr
Jun 29, 5:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	42 min
Jun 29, 10:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas	13 hr
Jun 29, 10:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe, Noble	13 hr
Jun 29, 10:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Harrison	13 hr
Jun 29, 11:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Tuscarawas	43 min
Jun 29, 7:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Jefferson	3 hr
Jun 28, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	74 min
Jun 28, 8:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Washington	60 min
Jun 28, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	70 min
Jun 28, 9:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Greene	4 hr
Jun 28, 9:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	61 min
Jun 28, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke, Ohio	41 min
Jun 28, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston	62 min
Jun 28, 10:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Marion	6 hr
Jun 28, 10:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Preston	6 hr
Jun 28, 10:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tucker	59 min
Jun 28, 10:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tucker	5 hr
Jun 29, 8:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Marshall	3 hr
Jun 29, 1:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	5 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.