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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 14, 2014Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2014, 4:58 PM EDT for Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 14, 2014, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2014, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Tuscarawas County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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
May 14, 1:23 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 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 14, 2:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
224 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

.SYNOPSIS...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PLAGUE THE UPPER OHIO
VALLEY REGON UNTIL PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT EARLY ON FRIDAY.

&&

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/...
MID AFTN UPDATE WAS ISSUED TO ADJUST FOR HOURLY TRENDS AS SHWRS
AND TSTMS CONT TO FORM IN THE MOIST SLY FLOW ON THE ERN FLANK OF
THE HIGH AMPLITUDE UPR TROF CNTRD OVR THE CNTRL PLAINS. CONVECTION
FOCUS WL BE ALONG THE HIGHER TERRAIN...AND OVR AREAS W OF I 77
ACRS ERN AND CNTRL OHIO WHERE DEEP MSTR IS CONVERGING IN VICINITY
OF FRONT. THAT AREA WL ALSO SERVE AS PATH FOR SFC LOW PASSAGE
LATER TDA...I.E. ENHANCED LLVL SHEAR AREA.

GIVEN THAT SFC HEATING AND MSTR ADVCTN HAS INTENSIFIED CAPE VALUES
TWD THE 2000 J/KG MARK...SPC HAS UPPED THE RISK OF SEVERE FOR OHIO
COUNTIES. THAT RISK INCLUDES THE CHANCE FOR ISOLD TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY
IN LIGHT OF INCRSD LLVL SHEAR EXPECTATIONS WITH THE CROSSING LOW
THIS EVENING.

AS FOR FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL...CURRENT THINKING IS THE PRIMARY AND
MORE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS MORE LIKELY WITH THE SWATH EXPECTED
WITH THE ADVN OF THE FRONT ON THURSDAY...HENCE...HAVE ABSTAINED
FROM A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NOW...BUT MAINTAINED THE HAZARDOUS
WEATHER MENTION. WILL REVISIT IN THE WAKE OF THE ONGOING TORNADO
WATCH.

&&

.SHORT TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
DEEP LOW PRES WILL PULL A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY
WITH MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT. FORECAST...BASIN
AVERAGED RAINFALL FOR THE EVENT LOOKS TO BE IN THE ONE TO TWO
INCH RAIN FOR MOST AREAS. SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDER ARE
EXPECTED TO BE ONGOING ON THURSDAY MRNG...WITH GRADUAL EWD SHIFT
WITH PROGRESS OF THE UPR TROF.

WITH MUCH OF THE AREA BECOMING MORE SATURATED...FLOODING ISSUES WL HAVE
TO BE MONITORED AND HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK MENTION WL BE
MAINTAINED FOR NOW.

&&

.LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
NOTICEABLY COOLER AIR WILL BE THIS WEEKEND AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES
OVER THE REGION. LOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS WILL SUPPORT SHOWER CHANCES...BUT
POP NUMBERS WILL REMAIN LOW END.

SURFACE HIGH WILL BRING A DRY AND COOL START FOR THE BEGINNING OF
NEXT WEEK.

&&

.AVIATION /18Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/...
VFR WILL CONTINUE AT SITES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OUTSIDE
OF ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. WHILE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE MASON-DIXON LINE AND MOVE
NORTH...MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS
CENTRAL OHIO AND MOVE TO THE EAST ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT.
MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN ANY PRECIPITATION THAT
DEVELOPS...AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS. WHILE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL
DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING...SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST AND
OVERSPREAD THE REGION BY THURSDAY MORNING. MARGINAL LOW LEVEL WIND
SHEAR MAY DEVELOP OVERNIGHT...BUT CONFIDENCE IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO
INCLUDE IN TAFS AT THIS TIME. SOME GUSTY WINDS MAY DEVELOP
THURSDAY...WITH GUSTS UP TO 20-25 KTS.

&&

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

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
215 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

MDZ001-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-
021>023-041-151815-
GARRETT-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-
215 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THE PRIMARY SEVERE RISK IS FROM DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT WITH A CROSSING
COLD FRONT. SIGNIFICANT RISES ON CREEKS ARE POSSIBLE...AND A FLOOD
WATCH MAY BE NEEDED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-151815-
TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH-
MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-
215 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

...TORNADO WATCH 155 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   TORNADO WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT WITH A CROSSING
COLD FRONT. SIGNIFICANT RISES ON CREEKS ARE POSSIBLE...AND A FLOOD
WATCH MAY BE NEEDED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 3:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
316 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

PAZ014-022-142015-
ARMSTRONG PA-BUTLER PA-
316 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ARMSTRONG AND EAST CENTRAL
BUTLER COUNTIES...

AT 308 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH WILL
IMPACT EASTERN BUTLER AND WESTERN ARMSTRONG COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM
TODAY. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE
ALONG WITH PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS DUE TO HEAVY RAIN.

  LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ELDERTON...           CROOKED CREEK LAKE PARK...
  SARVER...             RURAL VALLEY...       LERNERVILLE...
  FORD CITY...          KITTANNING...         DAYTON...
  MUFF...               CHICORA...

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY CALLING...412-262-1988...POSTING
TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH FACEBOOK PAGE...OR USING TWITTER
@NWSPITTSBURGH.

LAT...LON 4097 7986 4095 7940 4101 7923 4090 7923
      4081 7925 4064 7937 4072 7978

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Special weather statement, May 14, 3:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
328 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

OHZ039-048-142015-
COSHOCTON OH-TUSCARAWAS OH-
328 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN COSHOCTON AND NORTHERN
TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES...

AT 327 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTH OF
CONESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM. HEAVY RAIN WILL POND WATER ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL SMALL
STREAMS.

  LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CONESVILLE...         COSHOCTON...          WEST LAFAYETTE...
  BAKERSVILLE...        BALTIC...             STONE CREEK...
  SUGARCREEK...         STRASBURG...          NEW PHILADELPHIA...
  DOVER...

STORM INTENSITY REMAINS STRONG...AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP
RAPIDLY. REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF WARNINGS ARE
ISSUED.

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY CALLING...412-262-1988...POSTING
TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH FACEBOOK PAGE...OR USING TWITTER
@NWSPITTSBURGH.

LAT...LON 4045 8182 4045 8168 4062 8167 4064 8165
      4065 8153 4054 8135 4015 8179 4016 8196
      4020 8204

Local storm report, May 14, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
336 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0327 PM     HAIL             1 WSW FRANKLIN          40.21N  81.89W
05/14/2014  E1.75 INCH       COSHOCTON          OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL RANGED FROM SIZE OF PENNIES TO GOLF BALLS

&&

EVENT NUMBER PBZ1401354

KRAMAR

Local storm report, May 14, 3:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
342 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0340 PM     HAIL             1 S COSHOCTON           40.25N  81.85W
05/14/2014  E0.75 INCH       COSHOCTON          OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER PBZ1401355

KRAMAR

Local storm report, May 14, 3:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
354 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0255 PM     HAIL             3 SE IRVILLE            40.02N  82.09W
05/14/2014  E1.00 INCH       MUSKINGUM          OH   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER PBZ1401356

KRAMAR

Special weather statement, May 14, 4:21 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
421 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

OHZ039-048-142100-
COSHOCTON OH-TUSCARAWAS OH-
421 PM EDT WED MAY 14 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN COSHOCTON AND WEST
CENTRAL TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES...

AT 418 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF COSHOCTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE PENNY SIZE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN WILL POND WATER
ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL SMALL STREAMS.

  LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CONESVILLE...         COSHOCTON...          WEST LAFAYETTE...
  BAKERSVILLE...        BALTIC...             SUGARCREEK...

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY CALLING...412-262-1988...POSTING
TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH FACEBOOK PAGE...OR USING TWITTER
@NWSPITTSBURGH.

LAT...LON 4045 8188 4045 8168 4060 8167 4060 8165
      4052 8148 4015 8181 4016 8193 4021 8204

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Westmoreland	47 min
May 13, 9:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Fayette	43 min
May 14, 4:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Mercer	4 hr
May 14, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Westmoreland	27 min
May 14, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Armstrong	59 min
May 14, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Lawrence, Washington	66 min
May 14, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Lawrence, Mercer	52 min
May 14, 7:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 8 more	30 hr
May 14, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Mercer, Venango	48 min
May 14, 2:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Guernsey	6 hr
May 14, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Muskingum	47 min
May 14, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Coshocton, Tuscarawas	47 min
May 14, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Tuscarawas	44 min
May 14, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Coshocton	39 min
May 14, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana	62 min
May 14, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe	39 min
May 14, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson	48 min
May 14, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe	48 min
May 14, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe	49 min
May 14, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	46 min
May 13, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	64 min
May 14, 11:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Preston	32 min
May 14, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Preston	23 min
May 14, 1:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Preston	3 hr
May 14, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Tucker	114 min
May 14, 3:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Tucker	3 hr
May 14, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	58 min

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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.