Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 8:09 PM EDT for Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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
- May 24, 1998, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Pleasant, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, May 24, 6:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
638 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0615 PM MOUNDSVILLE WV 1 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MARSHALL
0615 PM MOUNDSVILLE WV 50 MPH TSTM GUST
05/24/98 MARSHALL TREES DOWN
0617 PM MOUNDSVILLE WV 1 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MARSHALL
0617 PM MOUNDSVILLE WV 1 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MARSHALL
0617 PM MOUNDSVILLE WV 40 MPH TSTM GUST
05/24/98 MARSHALL TREES DOWN
0618 PM MOUNDSVILLE WV .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MARSHALL
0626 PM GLENDALE WV 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/24/98 MARSHALL TREES DOWNLocal storm report, May 24, 7:30 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
730 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM GLEN EASTON WV 1.5 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MARSHALL
0710 PM DAYBROOK WV 35 MPH TSTM GUST
05/24/98 MONONGALIA SMALL TREES DOWN
0716 PM CORE WV .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MONONGALIALocal storm report, May 24, 7:30 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
730 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM GLEN EASTON WV 1.5 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MARSHALL
0710 PM DAYBROOK WV 35 MPH TSTM GUST
05/24/98 MONONGALIA SMALL TREES DOWN
0716 PM CORE WV .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/98 MONONGALIAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 57 min |
| May 25, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Forest | 29 min |
| May 24, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Ohio | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 48 min |
| May 24, 9:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 3 hr |
| May 24, 10:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 110 min |
| May 24, 11:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.