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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 5, 2024Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2024, 11:33 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 10 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
Jun 5, 2024, 11:33 PM EDT (03:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2024, 11:43 PM EDT
In force
10 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Radar indicated
Hail
0.75 in

County Muskingum County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2024-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 706 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2024-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
706 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 5, 10:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 10:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:23 PM EDT, 10 hours 10 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA
123 PM EDT Wed Jun 5 2024

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Eastern Preston-Western Tucker-Eastern Tucker-
123 PM EDT Wed Jun 5 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Ohio, western
Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and overnight.
Some storms could be strong and produce damaging winds. Any storms
will be capable of producing heavy downpours which could result in
localized flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather
conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures.

Shallenberger

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 12:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Muskingum44 min
Jun 6, 1:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas44 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.