Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 5, 1995Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 5:53 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 1995-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 104 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 1995-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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, Aug 5, 3:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
315 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY.....            STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY.....
0245 PM    ZANESVILLE                OH    WATER COVERED STREETS
08/05/95   MUSKINGUM                       AND FLOODED BUSINESS.
END
Local storm report, Aug 5, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
315 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY.....            STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY.....
0245 PM    ZANESVILLE                OH    WATER COVERED STREETS
08/05/95   MUSKINGUM                       AND FLOODED BUSINESS.
END

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 5:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGreene2 hr
Aug 5, 2:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.