A weak cold front moved across the upper Ohio Valley late in the evening of the 15th and the early morning of the 16th. Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed along the front, one of which produced wind damage in Coshocton county.
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The episode as NWS PBZ wrote it up.
A weak cold front moved across the upper Ohio Valley late in the evening of the 15th and the early morning of the 16th. Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed along the front, one of which produced wind damage in Coshocton county.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 15, 10:28 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1128 PM EDT WED MAY 15 2013 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH OF THE AREA TONIGHT...AND THEN BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY REGION INTO THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY/... SENDING OUT AN UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH...AS LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE STALLED FRONT. ACTIVITY IS DEVELOPING WITH A SHORTWAVE WHICH IS MOVING EASTWARD JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY. ATMOSPHERE IS STABILIZING...AND ACTIVITY IS WEAKENING AS IT HEADS EASTWARD. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... A CDFNT CONTS TO DROP S ACRS WRN PA/ERN OH. ISOLD SHWRS DVLPD IN A WK CONVERGENCE ZONE S OF PIT AS ANOTHER WK SHRTWV MOVES IN. WL KEEP THESE SHWRS IN THE FCST OVRNGT. EVE RAOB INSTAB CHART AND MESO DATA SHOWS INSTAB DCRG...SO HAVE REMOVED MENTION OF TSTMS AS WELL. THE FNT SHOULD SET UP ACRS SRN OH INTO WV THU...AND KEPT LOW CHC POPS FOR SHWRS/TSTMS FOR AREAS INVOF THE FNT WELL S OF PIT. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... THE FRONT WILL GET A BIT OF A PUSH SOUTH FOR THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY WITH DRY AIR ENCOMPASSING MUCH OF THE REGION. SCATTERED SHOWERS STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FAR SOUTH. FOR LATER FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY MODELS AGAIN HAVE SOME DIFFICULTY WITH SHORTWAVE TIMING AND MOVEMENT BACK NORTHWARD OF THE FRONT ACROSS REGION. DID NOT MAKE MAJOR CHANGES TO CHANCE POPS FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST UNTIL MORE CERTAINTY WITH PLACEMENT OF FRONT. TEMPERATURES WERE A BLEND OF MODEL MOS. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE OHIO VALLEY THROUGH THE WEEKEND FOLLOWED BY AN APPROACHING TROUGH BY THE END OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD. MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH OVERALL PATTERN BUT DIFFER IN LOCATION OF BOUNDARY ON THE WEEKEND. SOUTHERN COUNTIES IN THE FORECAST AREA WILL HAVE BEST CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY RISE THROUGH THE LONG TERM PERIOD. && .AVIATION /04Z THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... GENL VFR IS EXPECTED FOR THE TAF PD AS A CDFNT SLIDES ACRS THE UPR OH REGION AND STALLS OVR WV. EXCEPTIONS ARE POSSIBLE AT ZZV AND MGW AS SHWR CHCS WL PLAGUE THOSE PORTS DUE TO PROXIMITY OF THE STALLED FRONT. .OUTLOOK.../THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... RESTRICTIONS ARE EXPECTED WITH SHWRS AND TSTMS ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 552 PM EDT WED MAY 15 2013 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-162200- GARRETT-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-PRESTON-TUCKER- 552 PM EDT WED MAY 15 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 07
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:52 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A NWS employee found large trees down along the Walhonding River, and a small shed and boat blown into the river.
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