Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1993, 4:11 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1993, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1993, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Indiana County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 1278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 262012 TORPIT PAC063-262100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 411 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...NORTHERN INDIANA COUNTY AT 408 PM WEATHER RADAR AT PITTSBURGH INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ROUTE 119 IN NORTHERN INDIANA COUNTY. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO IS MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DMW
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jul 26, 12:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PAZ001>006-013>015-262300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1240 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF PENNSYLVANIA TIL 7PM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED TIL 7PM EDT FOR ALL OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THIS INCLUDES THE SURROUNDING CITIES OF PITTSBURGH... ERIE...FRANKLIN...DUBOIS...BRADFORD...CLEARFIELD...STATE COLLEGE... CHAMBERSBURG...ALTOONA...JOHNSTOWN...AND SOMERSET. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PM/RD/FLH WWUS35KWBC ,T
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 12:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
PAZ001>006-013>015-262300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1240 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF PENNSYLVANIA TIL 7PM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED TIL 7PM EDT FOR ALL OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THIS INCLUDES THE SURROUNDING CITIES OF PITTSBURGH... ERIE...FRANKLIN...DUBOIS...BRADFORD...CLEARFIELD...STATE COLLEGE... CHAMBERSBURG...ALTOONA...JOHNSTOWN...AND SOMERSET. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINzGS. PM/RD/FLH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Somerset | 40 min |
| Jul 26, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion | 30 min |
| Jul 26, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Cambria | 66 min |
| Jul 26, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 51 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.