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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 14, 1995Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 5:02 AM EDT for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 5:02 AM EDT (09:02 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 1995-05-14Temperature 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
2103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 6:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana48 min
May 14, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer40 min
May 14, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer56 min
May 14, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZVenango43 min
May 14, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClarion45 min
May 14, 2:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Muskingum69 min
May 14, 3:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Noble65 min
May 14, 4:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont54 min
May 14, 4:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana33 min
May 14, 6:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Muskingum4 hr
May 14, 6:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZPreston, Tucker4 hr
May 14, 6:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion3 hr
May 14, 7:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMonongalia2 hr
May 14, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker2 hr
May 14, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion2 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.