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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 3, 1996Ohio County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1996, 3:38 AM EDT for Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1996, 3:38 AM EDT (07:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1996, 4:15 AM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Ohio County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1704 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.3
Supercell composite
-1.6

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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, 9:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene63 min
Jul 3, 1:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver64 min
Jul 3, 1:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny59 min
Jul 3, 2:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington59 min
Jul 3, 2:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland79 min
Jul 3, 2:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana49 min
Jul 3, 2:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette33 min
Jul 3, 3:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette57 min
Jul 3, 3:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington25 min
Jul 3, 3:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington58 min
Jul 3, 12:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll, Columbiana52 min
Jul 3, 1:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson60 min
Jul 3, 1:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBrooke40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.