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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 28, 2019Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2019, 12:50 AM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 23 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 28, 2019, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2019, 1:13 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Muskingum County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:51 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 28, 12:08 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 2016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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 27, 9:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 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
May 28, 8:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Indiana	13 min
May 28, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer, Venango	45 min
May 28, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Lawrence	47 min
May 28, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Venango	51 min
May 28, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Indiana	46 min
May 28, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler	44 min
May 28, 3:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Indiana	24 min
May 28, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, Jefferson	30 min
May 28, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Lawrence	39 min
May 28, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Mercer, Venango	49 min
May 28, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Forest, Venango	47 min
May 28, 3:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Indiana	32 min
May 28, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Indiana	40 min
May 28, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, Jefferson	47 min
May 28, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Butler, Lawrence, Mercer	43 min
May 28, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Forest, Jefferson	39 min
May 28, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	19 min
May 28, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland	45 min
May 28, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Lawrence	33 min
May 28, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	41 min
May 28, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana, Jefferson	32 min
May 28, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Indiana, Westmoreland	46 min
May 28, 6:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Lawrence	5 hr
May 28, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Westmoreland	45 min
May 28, 6:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Westmoreland	5 hr
May 28, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Armstrong	28 min
May 28, 7:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Lawrence	3 hr
May 28, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Lawrence	37 min
May 28, 12:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum, Noble	38 min
May 28, 1:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	28 min
May 28, 1:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	36 min
May 28, 1:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Muskingum	2 hr
May 28, 4:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe	41 min
May 28, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Tuscarawas	51 min
May 28, 5:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Preston	29 min
May 28, 7:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Tucker	10 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.