Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2003, 9:05 PM EDT for Harrison County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2003, 9:05 PM EDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harrison County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
494 WUUS51 KPBZ 020105 SVRPBZ OHC067-020200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 905 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARRISON COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 905 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEWETT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... JEWETT... <<CALL TO ACTION>>LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4033 8116 4027 8110 4038 8089 4043 8095
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 May 1, 8:55 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 8:55 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 855 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 SENDING OUT UPDATE...HAVE FALLEN BEHIND A BIT DUE TO AWIPS UPGRADE. FORECAST PRETTY MUCH THE SAME JUST SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. RRR
Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 5:25 AM EDT, 15 hours 40 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-011115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 525 AM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REGION MAINLY FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE SEVERE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 63 min |
| May 1, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.