Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 2002, 5:33 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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
- Oct 3, 2002, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 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 21:46 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 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Philadelphia, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several power lines and large 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPBZ 032133 SVRPBZ OHC157-032230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 533 PM EDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TUSCARAWAS COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 533 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW PHILADELPHIA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... DENNISON...GNADENHUTTEN AND TUSCARAWAS... <<CALL TO ACTION>>SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR AND LARGE HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH.
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 3, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 320 PM EDT THU OCT 3 2002 FRONTAL BOUNDARY CURRENTLY STRUNG OUT FROM W-E ACRS AREA...WITH SHRA/TSRA POPPING UP TO SOUTH OF BOUNDARY. WITH THIS FRONT SLOWLY STARTING TO MOVE BACK NORTH ACRS AREA...WL KEEP LO-CHC POPS IN FOR OVERNIGHT PD. THINGS START TO GET INTERESTING ON FRIDAY AS REMNANTS OF LILY/COLD FRONT OVR NRN PLAINS START TO WORK TOWARDS AREA. ETA SEEMS TO BE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH H85 TEMPS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN AVN/NGM. ETA HAS H85 TEMP OF +20C OVR PIT AT 21Z ON FRI...WITH ETA MOS HIGH OF 93. WL NOT GO THAT HIGH...BUT WL NUDGE UP NGM/AVN NUMBERS A NOTCH. BY DOING THIS...WL BE NEAR RECORD HIGHS IN UPPER 80S FOR SOUTHERN TIER COUNTIES BUT WITH CWA IN WARM SECTOR AND SOME SUNSHINE CANNOT RULE IT OUT. WL BRING IN CHC POPS FOR PM HOURS ACRS AREA...WITH LIKELY POPS FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AS FRONT APCHS. MAIN PROBLEM FOR THIS EVENT WONT BE AMT OF PRECIP...BUT POSSIBLY WINDS. AT H5...PRVS MODEL RUNS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO PHASE IMPULSE COMING OUT OF SW US WITH REMNANTS OF LILY. 12Z AVN A BIT DIFFERENT THOUGH...AND KEEPS THE TWO SYSTEMS SEPARATE. AS A RESULT...SYSTEM OVR CNTRL US DOESNT DEEPEN AS DRAMATICALLY AS 06Z AVN INDICATED...BUT STILL DEVELOPS A FAIRLY LARGE AREA OF 50+ KT WINDS AT H85 ACRS CWA BY FRI EVENING. FOR NOW WL PUT WINDY WORDING IN FOR HIER TERRAIN COUNTIES...BUT LATER SHIFTS WL NEED TO MONITOR FOR PSBL WIND ADVISORY. REST OF FCST FAIRLY BENIGN. WL PUT CHC SHRA IN FOR SUNDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER FRONT PASSES THRU AREA...THEN AREA SETTLES IN FOR COOLEST WEATHER OF YOUNG AUTUMN SEASON. 12Z AVN PUSHES -1C H85 TEMPS INTO AREA BY MONDAY EVE. WITH SFC RIDGE SETTLING OVR AREA THAT NIGHT...SHD BE SEVERAL AREAS INTO 30S BY TUES MORNING. FOR WED...ANOTHER WEAK IMPULSE CROSSES AREA BUT FEEL ANY PRECIP WL REMAIN NORTH. FOR NOW WL KEEP REMAINDER OF EXTNDD DRY. STRAGER .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 3, 5:12 AM EDT, 12 hours 21 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-031115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 512 AM EDT THU OCT 3 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN MARYLAND. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT AS THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE LILI MOVE THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY. GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 54 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.