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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 8, 1995Monroe County, Ohio; Marshall County, Wetzel County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 1:04 AM EDT for Monroe County, Ohio; Marshall County, Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1995, 1:04 AM EDT (05:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1995, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, OH, Marshall County, WV, Wetzel County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 8:28 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
828 PM EDT WED JUN 7 1995

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...WATCH #564...HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR
THE COUNTIES IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.  THE SEVERE STORMS FROM
EARLIER THIS EVENING HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAINS.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHEAST OHIO. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AND WILL CROSS THE PITTSBURGH AREA BETWEEN 9PM AND MIDNIGHT.

INTENSITY TRENDS OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE TO BE
MONITORED THROUGH THE EVENING FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL WATCHES
OR WARNINGS.

PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE UPDATES.

PM

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 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
Jun 7, 9:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Forest	2 hr
Jun 8, 12:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	4 hr
Jun 7, 11:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	67 min
Jun 8, 12:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum	61 min
Jun 8, 1:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	17 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1995 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1995 Every 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.