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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 17, 1995Wetzel County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 2:24 PM EDT for Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1995, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1995, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Wetzel County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 1995-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1129 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 1995-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 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
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 office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 10:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer63 min
Jul 16, 11:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZLawrence57 min
Jul 16, 11:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZVenango57 min
Jul 16, 11:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer49 min
Jul 17, 12:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler57 min
Jul 17, 12:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZLawrence47 min
Jul 17, 12:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer70 min
Jul 17, 12:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClarion67 min
Jul 17, 1:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver47 min
Jul 17, 2:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Butler, Washington66 min
Jul 17, 2:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong, Clarion64 min
Jul 17, 3:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny46 min
Jul 17, 3:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland55 min
Jul 17, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington66 min
Jul 17, 3:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWestmoreland116 min
Jul 17, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland116 min
Jul 17, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana60 min
Jul 17, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Butler53 min
Jul 16, 10:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana48 min
Jul 16, 11:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum57 min
Jul 16, 11:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton52 min
Jul 17, 12:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Tuscarawas65 min
Jul 17, 1:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum62 min
Jul 17, 1:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Jefferson34 min
Jul 17, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont34 min
Jul 17, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe61 min
Jul 17, 3:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont2 hr
Jul 17, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe66 min
Jul 17, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Muskingum, Noble68 min
Jul 17, 1:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHancock54 min
Jul 17, 1:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBrooke, Ohio47 min
Jul 17, 2:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall43 min
Jul 17, 1:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZOhio32 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.