Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 1:49 PM EDT for Carroll County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 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 30, 1998, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1998, 2:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 1:56 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Minerva, OH | Thunderstorm winds gusting to an estimated 60 MPH downed a few trees and caused minor damage in the Minerva area. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 30, 10:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1000 AM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0800 PM CAMBRIDGE OH FLOODING
06/29/98 GUERNSEY RECORD FLOOD ON THE WILLS
CREEK. CREST OF 26.92
FEET...12 FEET ABOVE FLOOD
STAGE. 1000-1200 PEOPLE
EVACUATED.
0845 PM SUGAR CREEK OH TORNADO
06/29/98 TUSCARAWAS F0 TORNADO WITH 60 MPH
WINDS. PATH LENGTH 4
MILES...WIDTH 75 YARDS.
WITNESSED BY SEVERAL
PEOPLE INCLUDING FIRE
CHIEF. LIMBS RIPPED FROM
TREE TOPS. A FEW TREES
WERE DOWNED.
0400 AM PINE GROVE WV FLOODING
06/30/98 WETZEL NORTH FORK OF FISHING
CREEK CAME OUT OF ITS
BANKS.
0700 AM UHRICHSVILLE OH FLOODING
06/30/98 TUSCARAWAS TUSCARAWAS RIVER 11.1 FEET
AND RISING...6 FEET ABOVE
FLOOD STAGE. 300 PEOPLE
EVACUATED.
PMLocal storm report, Jun 30, 10:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1000 AM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0800 PM CAMBRIDGE OH FLOODING
06/29/98 GUERNSEY RECORD FLOOD ON THE WILLS
CREEK. CREST OF 26.92
FEET...12 FEET ABOVE FLOOD
STAGE. 1000-1200 PEOPLE
EVACUATED.
0845 PM SUGAR CREEK OH TORNADO
06/29/98 TUSCARAWAS F0 TORNADO WITH 60 MPH
WINDS. PATH LENGTH 4
MILES...WIDTH 75 YARDS.
WITNESSED BY SEVERAL
PEOPLE INCLUDING FIRE
CHIEF. LIMBS RIPPED FROM
TREE TOPS. A FEW TREES
WERE DOWNED.
0400 AM PINE GROVE WV FLOODING
06/30/98 WETZEL NORTH FORK OF FISHING
CREEK CAME OUT OF ITS
BANKS.
0700 AM UHRICHSVILLE OH FLOODING
06/30/98 TUSCARAWAS TUSCARAWAS RIVER 11.1 FEET
AND RISING...6 FEET ABOVE
FLOOD STAGE. 300 PEOPLE
EVACUATED.
PMSpecial weather statement, Jun 30, 11:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-302000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPATED WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1105 AM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998 A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND WILL BRING THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IN AREAS WHERE FLOODING IS ONGOING...AS IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION. WHERE SOILS REMAIN SATURATED...HEAVY RAINS COULD INCREASE THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. SO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND ALL OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO. SKYWARN AND HAM RADIO ACTIVATION IS LIKELY. AS THE COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL END. FOR THE LATEST UP TO DATE WEATHER xINFORMATION LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO. WEATHER INFORMATION IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH WEB SITE AT: WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/PIT
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 11:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-302000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPATED WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1105 AM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998 A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND WILL BRING THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IN AREAS WHERE FLOODING IS ONGOING...AS IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION. WHERE SOILS REMAIN SATURATED...HEAVY RAINS COULD INCREASE THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. SO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND ALL OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO. SKYWARN AND HAM RADIO ACTIVATION IS LIKELY. AS THE COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL END. FOR THE LATEST UP TO DATE WEATHER xINFORMATION LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO. WEATHER INFORMATION IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH WEB SITE AT: WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/PIT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 9:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson | 72 min |
| Jun 29, 10:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 12 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 12 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 12 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe, Noble | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 57 min |
| Jun 30, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Jun 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 13 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 13 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 13 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 13 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Jun 30, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Tuscarawas | 58 min |
| Jun 30, 1:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Greene | 10 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 59 min |
| Jun 30, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Butler | 71 min |
| Jun 30, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 30, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 75 min |
| Jun 30, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 61 min |
| Jun 30, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 60 min |
| Jun 30, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 4:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.