Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1995, 7:17 PM EDT for Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Westmoreland County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Washington | 42 min |
| Jul 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 59 min |
| Jul 15, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 67 min |
| Jul 15, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Forest | 67 min |
| Jul 15, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 80 min |
| Jul 15, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 118 min |
| Jul 15, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 61 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.