Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2008, 5:07 AM EDT for Monroe County, Noble County, Ohio; Marshall County, Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 22, 2008, 5:07 AM EDT (09:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2008, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Marshall County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Jul 22, 3:56 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:56 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 356 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A SLOW MOVING COLD FORNT WILL BRINGSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING DRIER AND COOLER CONDITIONS FOR THE LAST HALF OF THE WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WORKING EAST TOWARD SOUTHERHN CWA WITH WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS REMAINDER OF CWA DURING DAY AS UPPER TROF AND FRONT MOVE EAST. AS UPPER LOW FORMS AND PIVOTS INTO REGION TONIGHT WENT WITH LIKELY POPS. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CROSS THE LOWER GREAT LAKES TUESDAY WEDNESDAY WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWRS AND STORMS. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION THURSDAY FOR DRY AND SEASONABLY COOL CONDITIONS. && .LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING DRY WEATHER AND COOLER TEMPERATURES THROUGH FRIDAY. ANOTHER SERIES OF VORTICITY MAXES ROTATE INTO THE EASTERN LONG WAVE POSITION OVER THE WEEKEND. MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT ON FRONTAL TIMING LATE SATURDAY WITH POSSIBILITY OF SECONDARY IMPULSE ON SUNDAY. PREVIOUS FORECAST MOSTLY UNCHANGED. && .AVIATION /08Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW AREAS OF IFR FOG AND STRATUS TO FORM EARLY THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TO VFR BY 15Z. SHORTWAVE TROUGHS WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY INTO TONIGHT. MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN STORMS. DRIER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK WITH PATCHY IFR CONDITIONS IN MORNING FOG WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE REGION SATURDAY WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 4:28 AM EDT, 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 428 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 OHZ039-040-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ029-031-032-WVZ001>004-012- 021>023-041-230830- TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM- GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-WASHINGTON-GREENE-FAYETTE-HANCOCK- BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 428 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 723 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY BE SEVERE TODAY INTO TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MDZ001-OHZ041-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-030-230830- GARRETT-COLUMBIANA-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION- JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WESTMORELAND- 428 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY BE SEVERE TODAY INTO TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 11:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:13 AM EDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 413 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 OHZ057>059-068-069-220915- BELMONT OH-GUERNSEY OH-MONROE OH-MUSKINGUM OH-NOBLE OH- 413 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...MONROE...NOBLE...MUSKINGUM...BELMONT AND GUERNSEY... AT 410 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PITTSBURGH INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 3 MILES SOUTH OF EAST FULTONHAM...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS CONTAIN NEARLY CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... ALLEDONIA...ANTIOCH...BARKCAMP STATE PARK...BARNESVILLE...BELLE VALLEY...BENWOOD...BETHESDA...BLUE ROCK STATE PARK...BRIDGEVILLE... BYESVILLE...CALDWELL...CAMERON...CANNELVILLE...CHANDLERSVILLE AND CLARINGTON KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Washington | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 66 min |
| Jul 22, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Jefferson | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Lawrence | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.