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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 8, 1990Cambria County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 9:05 AM EDT for Cambria County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1990, 9:05 AM EDT (13:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1990, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cambria County, PA, Somerset County, PA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:12 AM EDT, 4 hours 53 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
Jun 8, 7:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	61 min
Jun 8, 7:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	65 min
Jun 8, 7:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene, Washington	56 min
Jun 8, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Somerset	65 min
Jun 8, 7:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	66 min
Jun 8, 6:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke, Hancock	61 min
Jun 8, 7:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.