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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

April 28, 2002Monroe County, Noble County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 2:36 PM EDT for Monroe County, Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min. 5 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: Apr 28, 2002, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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
Apr 28, 2:36 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Caldwell, OH
Apr 28, 2:48 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Jerusalem, OH
Apr 28, 2:49 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Lewisville, OH
Apr 28, 2:52 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Beallsville, OH
Apr 28, 3:05 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Woodsfield, 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
Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 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 
WFUS51 KPBZ 281836
TORPBZ
OHC111-121-281930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
236 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN OHIO
  NOBLE COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 236 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF WOODSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
RURAL EASTERN MONROE COUNTY AT 250 PM

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND
GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	54 min
Apr 28, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	57 min
Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	65 min
Apr 28, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll	55 min
Apr 28, 2:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	44 min
Apr 28, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Noble	66 min
Apr 28, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	48 min
Apr 28, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	46 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.