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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2006, 2:38 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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
- May 26, 2006, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2006, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 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), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 2:15 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:15 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 215 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT AND SATURDAY)... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE WIDESPREAD IN ADVANCE OF APPROACHING COOL FRONT. FROPA THIS EVENING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS, ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OUR CWA, UNTIL FROPA. UPPER SHORT WAVE ROTATES THROUGH FA BETWEEN 06Z AND 12Z SATURDAY. SO PCPN WILL END BY SUNRISE SATURDAY. UPPER RIDGING BUILDS INTO FA DURING THE MORNING ON SATURDAY AND CONTINUES TO BUILD DURING THE DAY. SO A GENERAL DECREASING CLOUDINESS DURING THE DAY ON SATURDAY AND DRY WITH NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. && .LONG TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)... FOR LATE MAY A QUITE STRONG RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL SIT ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH TUESDAY WITH WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND NO RAIN. BY WED RIDGE WILL FLATTEN AND SHIFT EAST AS SYSTEM IN THE PLAINS STATES HEADS EAST. MOISTURE WILL BE ON THE INCREASE WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CURRENT TIMING HAS FRONT DROPPING TOWARD REGION THURSDAY AND PASSING ACROSS REGION FRIDAY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. TEMPERATURES BY LATE WEEK WILL DROP TO NEAR NORMAL. && .AVIATION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA WITH FROPA NOT UNTIL 22Z KZZV, 00Z KPIT AND 01Z KLBE. MVFR TO OCNL IFR CONDITIONS IN SHOWERS AND TSTMS, HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. VFR CONDITIONS OUTSIDE OF PCPN AREAS. MVFR CONDITIONS TO SCT IFR CONDITIONS POST FROPA IN STRATUS AND BR/FG/DZ. AFTER 12Z SATURDAY IMPROVING TO VFR. WINDS PRE-FROPA SOUTHWEST 5 TO 10 KTS AND POST-FROPA SHIFT TO WEST THEN NORTHWEST AT SAME SPEEDS. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 12:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1240 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006 MDZ001-OHZ049-050-057>059-068-069-PAZ020-021-029>032-WVZ001>004- 012-021>023-041-271645- GARRETT-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE- MONROE-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-WASHINGTON-WESTMORELAND-GREENE-FAYETTE- HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON- TUCKER- 1240 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. OHZ039>041-048-PAZ007>009-013>016-022-023-271645- TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST- LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA- 1240 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 15 min |
| May 25, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 53 min |
| May 25, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 57 min |
| May 25, 10:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.