Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 8:33 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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
- Jun 29, 1998, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscarawas County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Sugar Creek, OH | A weak F0 tornado with estimated 60 MPH winds passed through the Sugar Creek area. The tornado was witnessed by several people, including the Fire Chief. Limbs were ripped from tree tops, with several trees downed. |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Philadelphia, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. |
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, 0.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
505 WFUS1 KPIT 300032 RRA TORPIT OHC157-300131- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 833 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCARAWAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 930 PM EDT. * AT 830 PM EDT... SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF... SPOTTERS REPORT A TORNADO IN EAST CENTRAL HOLMES COUNTY NEAR WALNUT CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SUGARCREEK AT 840 PM. RAGERSVILLE AT 845 PM. STONE CREEK AT 855 PM. <<CALL TO ACTION>>A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR .END/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 61 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 |
Nearby
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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.