Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1998, 6:03 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. 2 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
- Sep 27, 1998, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1998, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muskingum County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Adamsville, OH | |
| Sep 27, 6:16 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Otsego, OH |
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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Sep 27, 5:10 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
510 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM GROVE CITY PA WIND DAMAGE
09/27/98 MERCER TREE DOWN
0450 PM GROVE CITY PA .75 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 MERCERLocal storm report, Sep 27, 5:10 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
510 PM EDT SUN SEP 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM GROVE CITY PA WIND DAMAGE
09/27/98 MERCER TREE DOWN
0450 PM GROVE CITY PA .75 INCH HAIL
09/27/98 MERCERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 31 min |
| Sep 27, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 45 min |
| Sep 27, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 58 min |
| Sep 27, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Sep 27, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 40 min |
| Sep 27, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Venango | 45 min |
| Sep 27, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 44 min |
| Sep 27, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion | 43 min |
| Sep 27, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 57 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.