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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 13, 1995Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 10:55 PM EDT for Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1995, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Westmoreland County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 494 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 8:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer, Venango62 min
Jul 13, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver, Lawrence43 min
Jul 13, 10:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler59 min
Jul 13, 10:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson35 min
Jul 13, 10:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington38 min
Jul 13, 10:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene56 min
Jul 13, 9:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZColumbiana45 min
Jul 13, 9:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZTuscarawas45 min
Jul 13, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton43 min
Jul 13, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll43 min
Jul 13, 10:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson34 min
Jul 13, 10:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum38 min
Jul 13, 10:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe56 min
Jul 13, 10:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBrooke, Ohio35 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.