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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 2, 1996Fayette County, Greene County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 3:29 PM EDT for Fayette County, Greene County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1996, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 2, 3:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindPerryopolis, PA
Jul 2, 3:50 PM EDTHail 0.75Waynesburg, PA
Jul 2, 4:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindEverson, PA
Jul 2, 4:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindConnellsville, PA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 1996-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1996-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1393 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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
Jul 2, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver40 min
Jul 2, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Butler, Washington59 min
Jul 2, 2:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWashington69 min
Jul 2, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington69 min
Jul 2, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong66 min
Jul 2, 3:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZAllegheny, Armstrong, Westmoreland55 min
Jul 2, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Armstrong, Westmoreland55 min
Jul 2, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClarion68 min
Jul 2, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana, Westmoreland65 min
Jul 2, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette61 min
Jul 2, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler54 min
Jul 2, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong67 min
Jul 2, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBrooke, Hancock59 min
Jul 2, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall52 min
Jul 2, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker49 min
Jul 2, 6:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWetzel59 min
Jul 2, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel59 min
Jul 2, 6:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWetzel3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.