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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

September 29, 1999Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1999, 4:11 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
Sep 29, 1999, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1999, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Columbiana County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 29, 4:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindSalem, OHThunderstorm winds downed several 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 29, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1999-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 618 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1999-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.6

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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
Sep 29, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington57 min
Sep 29, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny55 min
Sep 29, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver54 min
Sep 29, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler55 min
Sep 29, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZLawrence61 min
Sep 29, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer54 min
Sep 29, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZVenango63 min
Sep 29, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong58 min
Sep 29, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.