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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 17, 1995Ohio County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 1:13 PM EDT for Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1995, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Ohio County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 7:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 7:19 AM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	63 min
Jul 16, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Lawrence	57 min
Jul 16, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Venango	57 min
Jul 16, 11:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	49 min
Jul 17, 12:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Butler	57 min
Jul 17, 12:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Lawrence	47 min
Jul 17, 12:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	70 min
Jul 17, 12:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion	67 min
Jul 17, 1:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	47 min
Jul 17, 2:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Butler, Washington	66 min
Jul 17, 2:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Clarion	64 min
Jul 17, 3:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	46 min
Jul 17, 3:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	55 min
Jul 17, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	66 min
Jul 17, 3:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	116 min
Jul 17, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	116 min
Jul 17, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	60 min
Jul 17, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Butler	53 min
Jul 16, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	48 min
Jul 16, 11:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	57 min
Jul 16, 11:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	52 min
Jul 17, 12:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Tuscarawas	65 min
Jul 17, 1:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum	62 min
Jul 17, 1:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Jefferson	34 min
Jul 17, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	34 min
Jul 17, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe	61 min
Jul 17, 3:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Belmont	2 hr
Jul 17, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	66 min
Jul 17, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	68 min
Jul 17, 1:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Hancock	54 min
Jul 17, 1:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke, Ohio	47 min
Jul 17, 2:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	43 min
Jul 17, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	36 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.