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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 11, 1995Jefferson County, Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 3:18 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1995, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jefferson County, OH, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 1995-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 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 1995-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 9:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny3 hr
Jun 10, 9:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMercer3 hr
Jun 10, 10:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZButler3 hr
Jun 11, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler, Venango49 min
Jun 11, 3:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZLawrence3 hr
Jun 11, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClarion68 min
Jun 11, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson45 min
Jun 11, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette, Washington40 min
Jun 11, 4:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion115 min
Jun 11, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette45 min
Jun 11, 4:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZButler2 hr
Jun 11, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene54 min
Jun 11, 5:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong109 min
Jun 11, 2:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll3 hr

Nearby

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