Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2002, 4:17 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 4, 2002, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 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 20:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:29 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogers, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines. |
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, 8.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
227 WFUS51 KPBZ 042017 TORPBZ OHC029-042100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 416 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLUMBIANA COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIANA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES SOUTH OF EAST PALESTINE AT 420 PM... THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 11:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 12:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 2:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 4:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 63 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.