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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 24, 1992Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 3:37 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1992, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1992, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland55 min
Jun 24, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene67 min
Jun 24, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette59 min
Jun 24, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZSomerset53 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.