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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 29, 1995Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 3:03 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Tucker County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 294 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 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 1:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZLawrence65 min
May 29, 1:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer65 min
May 29, 2:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZLawrence, Mercer64 min
May 29, 3:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler, Venango61 min
May 29, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker31 min
May 29, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston, Tucker50 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.