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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 14, 1995Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1995, 5:49 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1995, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 1995-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 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 1995-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 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 14, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble42 min
Jun 14, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble32 min
Jun 14, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum34 min
Jun 14, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion64 min
Jun 14, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel67 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.