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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 13, 2005Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 2005, 2:51 PM EST for Coshocton County, Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2005, 2:51 PM EST (19:51 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2005, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coshocton County, OH, Muskingum County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Jan 13, 2:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 13, 2:32 PM EST, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 2:32 PM EST, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 5:00 AM EST, 9 hours 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
500 AM EST THU JAN 13 2005

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-141000-
ALLEGHENY PA-ARMSTRONG PA-BEAVER PA-BELMONT OH-BROOKE WV-BUTLER PA-
CARROLL OH-CLARION PA-COLUMBIANA OH-COSHOCTON OH-FAYETTE PA-
FOREST PA-GARRETT MD-GREENE PA-GUERNSEY OH-HANCOCK WV-HARRISON OH-
INDIANA PA-JEFFERSON PA-JEFFERSON OH-LAWRENCE PA-MARION WV-
MARSHALL WV-MERCER PA-MONONGALIA WV-MONROE OH-MUSKINGUM OH-NOBLE OH-
OHIO WV-PRESTON WV-TUCKER WV-TUSCARAWAS OH-VENANGO PA-WASHINGTON PA-
WESTMORELAND PA-WETZEL WV-
500 AM EST THU JAN 13 2005

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...EAST CENTRAL
OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

WIND ADVISORY AND FLOOD WATCH ARE IN EFFECT TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. BE
READY FOR WIND GUSTS TO 45 OR 50 MPH, AND FOR ADDITIONAL FLOODING FROM
THE RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 13, 2:39 PM EST, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 3:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.