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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 10, 1993Brooke County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1993, 5:49 PM EDT for Brooke County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1993, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1993, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Brooke County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 1993-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1344 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 1993-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene, Washington41 min
Jul 10, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny35 min
Jul 10, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette, Westmoreland74 min
Jul 10, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZSomerset55 min
Jul 10, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana48 min
Jul 10, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCambria65 min
Jul 10, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall, Ohio42 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.