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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

April 13, 1994Blair County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1994, 1:53 PM EDT for Blair County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 1994, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1994, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Blair County, PA, Clearfield County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1994-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1994-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
256 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
Apr 13, 1:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBeaver, Butler4 hr
Apr 13, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCambria49 min

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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.