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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 16, 2000Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 6:32 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2000, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 58 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 22:33 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

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.

NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 3:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

PAZ007-161945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
150 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

...THUNDERSTORM UPDATE...
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH ACROSS MERCER COUNTY. AREAS GETTING MORE THAN AN INCH OF
RAIN IN AN HOUR CAN HAVE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND WHERE
DRAINAGE IS POOR. IF HEAVY RAIN REPEATS...MORE SERIOUS FLOODING MAY
DEVELOP.

THE GREENVILLE...STONEBORO...AND HERMITAGE AREAS ARE MOST
LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED AT FIRST. AREAS FARTHER SOUTH LIKE MERCER MAY
BE AFFECTED AFTER 230 PM.

GIORDANO/STAIRS

Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:18 PM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
218 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0632 PM    SHADYSIDE                 OH   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/15/00   BELMONT                        TREES DOWN.

0636 PM    GLENDALE                  WV   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/15/00   MARSHALL                    p   TREES DOWN.

NNNN

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:59 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
559 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

OHZ039>041-048-PAZ007-008-013-170000-
CARROLL OH-COLUMBIANA OH-COSHOCTON OH-LAWRENCE PA-MERCER PA-
TUSCARAWAS OH-VENANGO PA-
559 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

...STRONG STORMS APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION FRROM
WEST TO EAST BETWEEN 615 PM AND 8 PM. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND
GUSTS BETWEEN 35 AND 45 MPH AND LOCALLY TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS EXCEEDING
ONE INCH. STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES.

RESIDENTS SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AND STAY TUNED FOR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	62 min
Jun 16, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	62 min
Jun 16, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	57 min
Jun 16, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.