Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2005, 8:57 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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 13, 2005, 8:57 PM EDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2005, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Columbiana County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPBZ 140056 SVRPBZ OHC029-140200- /O.NEW.KPBZ.SV.W.0021.050514T0057Z-050514T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 857 PM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLUMBIANA COUNTY IN OHIO * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 853 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOMEWORTH...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GUILFORD LAKE STATE PARK... LISBON... LEETONIA... COLUMBIANA... EAST PALESTINE... <<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. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE. 1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2. WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 4089 8112 4073 8110 4072 8054 4089 8053 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPBZ 140120 SVSPBZ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 920 PM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005 OHC029-140200- /O.CON.KPBZ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050514T0200Z/ COLUMBIANA OH- 920 PM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR COLUMBIANA COUNTY... AT 920 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SALEM TO GLASGOW... AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COLEMAN... TEEGARDEN... LOGTOWN... LONGS CROSSING... SARATOGA... JORDANVILLE... LISBON... PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 4089 8091 4063 8068 4065 8056 4090 8053 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 56 min |
| May 13, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 91 min |
| May 13, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 87 min |
| May 13, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 64 min |
| May 13, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 39 min |
| May 13, 9:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 3 hr |
| May 13, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 29 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.