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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 24, 1998Harrison County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT for Harrison County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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
Aug 24, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Harrison County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 1998-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1171 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 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
1171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
7.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

054 
WUUS1 KPIT 242105 RRA
SVRPIT
OHC067-242148-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
504 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO.

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT.

* AT 502 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF TAPPAN LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TAPPAN AT 515 PM EDT.
  DEERSVILLE AT 520 PM.
  CADIZ AT 535 PM EDT.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>DAMAGING WINDS.. LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE
LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

.END/

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 9:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll, Columbiana, Tuscarawas72 min
Aug 24, 9:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton72 min
Aug 24, 9:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson61 min
Aug 24, 9:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHarrison61 min
Aug 24, 11:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton58 min
Aug 24, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas54 min
Aug 24, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson44 min
Aug 24, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHarrison46 min
Aug 24, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson58 min
Aug 24, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont59 min
Aug 24, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont58 min
Aug 24, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson56 min
Aug 24, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton42 min
Aug 24, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe61 min
Aug 24, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey56 min
Aug 24, 7:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont3 hr

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.