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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 21, 2001Noble County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 6:16 PM EDT for Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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 21, 2001, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Noble County, OH

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 21, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 21, 4:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 4:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
400 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001

UPDATING FOR SPC WATCH.

INSTABILITY FROM YESTERDAY STILL IN PLACE OVER CWA BRINGING CHANCE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT.  STORMS TONIGHT
COULD CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL...WILL HAVE TO MONITOR
SOUTHERN PORTION OF CWA BECAUSE OF HEAVY RAIN THERE YESTERDAY.
GUIDANCE INDICATED WINDS SHIFTING TO WEST MIDDAY FRIDAY.  BY
SATURDAY PRECIP SHOULD BE TO OUR SOUTH AND EAST WITH SOME CLEARING.
A DISTURBANCE MAY EFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ZONES ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY BUT
REST OF CWA SHOULD REMAIN DRY.  SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES CAN BE
EXPECTED INTO NEXT WEEK WITH GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS AS HIGH BUILDS
INTO AREA.

JMP

PIT   65  77  60  75 /  60  30  30   0
HLG   65  77  59  75 /  60  40  30   0
MGW   65  79  60  75 /  60  40  30  10
ZZV   65  75  57  77 /  70  40  30   0
PHD   64  74  56  75 /  70  30  30   0
FKL   63  73  56  71 /  70  40  30   0
DUJ   62  71  57  70 /  60  50  30   0
LBE   65  77  59  74 /  60  30  20   0
BTP   65  76  59  74 /  70  40  30   0
IDI   63  74  58  72 /  50  40  30  10
ODM   58  73  54  66 /  50  50  30  20

.PBZ...
MD...NONE.
OH...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES
OHZ039>041...OHZ048>049...OHZ057>058...OHZ068.

PA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES
PAZ007...PAZ013.

&WV...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

OHZ039>041-048-049-057-058-068-PAZ007-013-220200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
350 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY
EVENING
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN PENNSYLVANIA...

  LAWRENCE        MERCER

IN OHIO...

  CARROLL         COLUMBIANA      COSHOCTON       GUERNSEY
  HARRISON        MUSKINGUM       NOBLE           TUSCARAWAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Venango	40 min
Jun 21, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	67 min
Jun 21, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Harrison	54 min
Jun 21, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	67 min
Jun 21, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	62 min
Jun 21, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	64 min
Jun 21, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall, Ohio	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.