Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 10:14 PM EDT for Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 10:14 PM EDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coshocton County, OH, Muskingum County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Coshocton, OH | |
| Oct 24, 11:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Zanesville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 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.
NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 24, 7:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 7:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 24, 6:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
OHZ048-057-250400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 636 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001 TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN OHIO... COSHOCTON MUSKINGUM REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 9:24 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-250230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 924 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TOWARD EAST-CENTRAL OHIO... POWERFUL THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS WERE PUSHING ACROSS WESTERN OHIO THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO COSHOCTON AND MUSKINGUM COUNTIES AROUND 1030 PM. THE STORMS MAY BEGIN TO DIMINISH...HOWEVER...THEY COULD STILL MOVE INTO EAST-CENTRAL OHIO WITH VERY STRONG WINDS. A GUST OF ALMOST 70 MPH WAS RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN WILMINGTON OHIO. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR MORE INFORMATION AS THESE STORMS GET CLOSER. BE PREPARED FOR TOPPLED TREES...DOWNED POWER LINES AND POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Tuscarawas | 57 min |
| Oct 25, 12:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 47 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.