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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2014, 6:43 PM EDT for Guernsey County, Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 17 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 21, 2014, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2014, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Guernsey County, OH, Noble County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 21, 6:43 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 6:43 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 21, 5:48 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 548 PM EDT WED MAY 21 2014 OHZ039-048-057-058-068-212230- COSHOCTON OH-GUERNSEY OH-MUSKINGUM OH-NOBLE OH-TUSCARAWAS OH- 548 PM EDT WED MAY 21 2014 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE AREA... AT 545 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PITTSBURGH SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF OTSEGO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PLAINFIELD... OTSEGO... FERNCLIFF... BODEN... KIMBOLTON... CAMBRIDGE... SALT FORK STATE PARK... SENECAVILLE... OLD WASHINGTON... BYESVILLE... PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY POSTING TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH FACEBOOK PAGE OR BY USING TWITTER @NWSPITTSBURGH. LAT...LON 4011 8125 3985 8148 4013 8192 4028 8179 07
Special weather statement, May 21, 6:33 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 633 PM EDT WED MAY 21 2014 OHZ058-068-212300- GUERNSEY OH-NOBLE OH- 633 PM EDT WED MAY 21 2014 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN NOBLE AND SOUTHWESTERN GUERNSEY COUNTIES... AT 631 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES WEST OF BYESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAIN WILL POND WATER ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL SMALL STREAMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BYESVILLE... SENECAVILLE... SENECA LAKE PARK... PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY POSTING TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH FACEBOOK PAGE OR BY USING TWITTER @NWSPITTSBURGH. LAT...LON 3990 8131 3980 8157 3995 8170 4005 8154 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 21, 7:34 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Forest | 8 hr |
| May 21, 12:05 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson | 22 hr |
| May 21, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Guernsey | 42 min |
| May 21, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Guernsey | 27 min |
| May 21, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Noble | 50 min |
| May 21, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 32 min |
Nearby
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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.