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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

September 25, 2011Carroll County, Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2011, 6:14 PM EDT for Carroll County, Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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
Sep 25, 2011, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 2011-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 496 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 2011-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Sep 25, 6:07 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 6:07 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 25, 4:04 AM EDT, 14 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
404 AM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-261200-
GARRETT-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-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-
FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-
MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER-
404 AM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 25, 5:19 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
519 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

OHZ040-049-252145-
CARROLL OH-HARRISON OH-
519 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARROLL AND NORTH CENTRAL
HARRISON COUNTIES...

AT 515 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED LEESVILLE LAKE
PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH...HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE... AND HEAVY RAIN ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LEESVILLE LAKE PARK...                      BOWERSTON...
  SHERRODSVILLE...      DELLROY...            CARROLLTON...
  MALVERN...            AUGUSTA...

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 4073 8120 4069 8094 4040 8106 4042 8127
Local storm report, Sep 25, 6:01 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 6:08 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 5:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZCarroll26 min
Sep 25, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll, Columbiana48 min
Sep 25, 6:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZCarroll, Harrison35 min
Sep 25, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll, Harrison, Jefferson41 min
Sep 25, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZBelmont, Monroe28 min
Sep 25, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe52 min
Sep 25, 6:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZBrooke, Ohio37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011

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.