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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

November 10, 1998Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 5:18 PM EST for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
Nov 10, 1998, 5:18 PM EST (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Nov 10, 1998, 6:20 PM EST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Tuscarawas County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 10, 5:25 PM ESTThunderstorm WindNew Philadelphia, OHThunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines across the New Philadelphia and Seventeen areas.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 10, 3:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-11-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-11-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 310 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
472 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 10, 5:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana58 min
Nov 10, 5:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana13 hr
Nov 10, 4:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Muskingum60 min
Nov 10, 5:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Noble62 min
Nov 10, 5:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll, Harrison61 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.