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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 5, 2002Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 6:25 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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 5, 2002, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 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 22:28 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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-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: 594 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPBZ 052225
SVRPBZ
OHC029-052300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
625 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBIANA COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 625 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW WATERFORD...MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

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 5, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
215 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

WHATEVER CAP IS LEFT IS JUST ABOUT GONE. EXPECT SPC WATCH NEXT
COUPLE OF HOURS. MODELS HAVE SLOWED FRONT DOWN AND WILL BRING A WAVE
ALONG IT THURS MID DAY. TRAINING OF CELLS OVERNIGHT A GOOD BET AS
FRONT LINES UP WITH UPPER FLOW WITH SHORT WV APPROACHING. FEEL
NORTHERN EXTENT OF HEAVY QPF MAY BE OVERDONE SO WILL GO WITH FLOOD
WATCH ALL BUT NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES THROUGH THURS MORNING. RIDGE
FINALLY BUILDS IN LATER IN THE DAY THURS WITH ANY LINGERING PRECIP
ENDING BY EVENING. NEXT CHANCE PRECIP MONDAY AS SW FLOW RETURNS.

TEMPS SIMILAR TO MOS.

PIT   64  70  55  76 /  90  80  30   0
HLG   67  72  55  76 /  90  80  30   0
MGW   67  70  55  76 /  90  80  30   0
ZZV   66  72  54  78 /  90  80  10   0
PHD   64  71  54  78 /  90  80  10   0
FKL   60  66  49  73 /  80  60  30   0
DUJ   61  66  49  72 /  80  60  30   0
LBE   64  70  55  76 /  90  80  30   0
BTP   60  66  49  73 /  80  60  30   0
IDI   64  70  55  76 /  90  80  30   0
ODM   63  67  54  70 /  90  80  40  10

.PBZ...
MD...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT INTO THURS MORNG FOR ZONE MDZ001.

OH...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT INTO THURS MORNG  FOR ZONES
OHZ039>041...OHZ048>050...OHZ057>059...OHZ068>069.

PA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT INTO THURS MORNG FOR ZONES
PAZ020>021...PAZ023...PAZ029>032.

WV...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT INTO THURS MORNG FOR ZONES
WVZ001>004...WVZ012...WVZ021>023-041.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:27 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
527 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

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

0500 PM    SLIPPERY ROCK             PA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/02   BUTLER

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:31 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
531 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

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

0515 PM    RAGERSVILLE               OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02   TUSCARAWAS                     TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:34 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
534 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

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

0515 PM    WORTHVILLE                PA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/02   JEFFERSON

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:36 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
536 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

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

0531 PM    GREENVILLE                PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02   MERCER                         TREES AND LARGE BRANCHES
                                          DOWNREPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:53 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
553 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

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

0545 PM    ANITA                     PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:07 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
607 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

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

0540 PM    COUNTYWIDE                PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02   LAWRENCE                       TREES DOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	65 min
Jun 5, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	62 min
Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	60 min
Jun 5, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	66 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.