Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1992, 10:32 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1992, 10:32 PM EDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1992, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Indiana County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 140228 TORPIT PAC063-140330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1032 PM EDT MON JUL 13 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...INDIANA COUNTY AT 1025 PM RADAR SHOWED THE DAMAGING STORM WHICH STILL MAY HAVE A TORNADO MOVING OUT OF SOUTHERN ARMSTRONG COUNTY INTO CENTRAL INDIANA COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF CAUSING MUCH WIND AND LIGHTNING DAMAGE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 9:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Westmoreland | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Clarion | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Jefferson | 96 min |
| Jul 13, 11:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Clearfield, Indiana, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clearfield, Indiana, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Cambria, Indiana, Westmoreland | 59 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.