Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:52 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbiana County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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 2, 5:17 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Fredericktown, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
662 WFUS1 KPIT 022053 RRA TORPIT OHC029-022145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 452 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLUMBIANA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO. * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 455 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF...DEVELOPING IN WESTERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY NEAR HOMEWORTH...MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HOMEWORTH AT 500 PM. NORTH GEORGETOWN AT 505 PM. WINONA AT 510 PM. <<CALL-TO-ACTION>>ABANDON MOBILE HOMES GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. .END/MURPHY/PALKO
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 2, 4:39 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
439 PM EDT TUE JUN 02 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM NORTH GEORGETOWN OH 1 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 COLUMBIANA
0435 PM SALEM OH .88 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 COLUMBIANALocal storm report, Jun 2, 4:39 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
439 PM EDT TUE JUN 02 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM NORTH GEORGETOWN OH 1 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 COLUMBIANA
0435 PM SALEM OH .88 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 COLUMBIANAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 43 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.