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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 31, 2007Harrison County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT for Harrison County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 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 31, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2007, 4:37 PM EDT
In force
37 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), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2007-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 304 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2007-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 May 31, 2:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
248 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007

.SYNOPSIS...
WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING MAINLY DRY WEATHER
INTO SUNDAY. UPPER RIDGE BREAKS DOWN LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY AS
CLOSED LOW OVER THE MIDWEST BECOMES A SLOW MOVING OPEN TROF AND
MOVES THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES BY TUESDAY. WEAK RIDGING BEHIND THE
SHORT WAVE WILL BRING DRY WEATHER WEDNESDAY.

&&

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH FRIDAY/...
WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGE ACROSS THE DISTRICT WILL BRING SOUTHERLY FLOW
TO THE AREA. WARM TEMPERATURES AND INCREASING MOISTURE WILL BE THE
RESULT. THE INCREASED MOISTURE WILL BRING A BETTER CHANCE OF
ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY.

&&

.SHORT TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/...
TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL INTO SUNDAY IN LOW LEVEL MORE
MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW. WE WILL BE IN THE WARM SECTOR BOTH SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY WITH SCATTERED AIRMASS THUNDERSTORMS DURING MAX HEATING
...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR PCPN AT OTHER TIMES.

&&

.LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/...
UPPER CLOSED CUTOFF LOW MOVES TO THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES SUNDAY
EVENING. SUNDAY NIGHT AND ON INTO MONDAY UPPER LOW OPENS INTO A
TROUGH AND SLOWLY MOVES ACROSS OUR AREA LATE MONDAY NIGHT. WE REMAIN
IN UPPER NORTHWEST FLOW INTO WEDNESDAY WHEN UPPER PATTERN FLATTENS
OVER PENNSYLVANIA. IN NORTHWEST FLOW WE GET BACK TO NEAR NORMAL
TEMPERATURES FOR MONDAY-WEDNESDAY...HIGHS IN THE MID 70S AND LOWS IN
THE MID 50S. ON THURSDAY BACK TO ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES IN
SOUTHWEST LOW LEVEL FLOW AS NEXT COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE
WEST.

&&

.AVIATION /19Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE DURING THE TAF PERIOD AS HIGH
PRESSURE WILL CONTROL THE WEATHER. THERE WILL BE INCREASED LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE ON FRIDAY BRINGING AREAS OF MVFR FOG TO THE REGION AROUND
DAYBREAK. THE HOT TEMPERATURES AND INCREASED MOISTURE COULD PRODUCE
ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IFR CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE
SHOULD A THUNDERSTORM CROSS THE PATH OF AN AIRPORT IN THE AFTERNOON.

LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL INCREASE AS A SLOW MOVING STORM SYSTEM MOVES
ACROSS THE UPPER MS VALLEY AND INTO THE GREAT LAKES OVER THE WEEKEND
INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.

&&

.PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MD...NONE.
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 1:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
124 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007

MDZ001-WVZ023-041-011730-
GARRETT-PRESTON-TUCKER-
124 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND AND NORTHERN
WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DOWNBURSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021-022-011730-
TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH-
MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST-
LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-
INDIANA-WASHINGTON-WESTMORELAND-GREENE-FAYETTE-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-
MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-
124 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL
PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF
WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 7:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny90 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.