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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 7, 2014Coshocton County, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2014, 6:57 PM EDT for Coshocton County, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 25 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 7, 2014, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2014, 7:22 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Coshocton County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 Jul 7, 6:42 PM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 6:42 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 10:03 AM EDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1003 AM EDT MON JUL 7 2014

MDZ001-WVZ023-041-081200-
GARRETT-PRESTON-TUCKER-
1003 AM EDT MON JUL 7 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ON TUESDAY WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.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-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029-
031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021-022-081200-
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-
1003 AM EDT MON JUL 7 2014

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...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE
PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER AGAIN ON TUESDAY
WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.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 7, 3:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
358 PM EDT MON JUL 7 2014

PAZ020-021-029-072045-
ALLEGHENY PA-BEAVER PA-WASHINGTON PA-
358 PM EDT MON JUL 7 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL
WASHINGTON...NORTHERN ALLEGHENY AND SOUTHEASTERN BEAVER COUNTIES...

AT 351 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARSHAVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

  LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  IMPERIAL...           MOON...               ECONOMY BORO...
  SEWICKLEY...          FRANKLIN PARK...      MCKEES ROCKS...
  WEXFORD...            PERRYSVILLE...
  NORTH SIDE PITTSBURGH...                    MILLVALE...
  GIBSONIA...           ALLISON PARK...

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY POSTING TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH
FACEBOOK PAGE OR BY USING TWITTER @NWSPITTSBURGH.

LAT...LON 4060 7973 4060 7975 4058 7977 4055 7977
      4054 7972 4053 7970 4046 7970 4044 8040
      4062 8042 4066 7969 4063 7969

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 6:07 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 6:40 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:55 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Clarion, Jefferson	52 min
Jul 7, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny	47 min
Jul 7, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	45 min
Jul 7, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Forest	46 min
Jul 7, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Venango	43 min
Jul 7, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Forest, Jefferson	36 min
Jul 7, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Clarion	43 min
Jul 7, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Jefferson	37 min
Jul 7, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Coshocton, Muskingum	65 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.