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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 16, 1996Venango County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 3:10 PM EDT for Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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 16, 1996, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Venango County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 16, 3:28 PM EDTHail 0.75Franklin, PA
Jul 16, 3:40 PM EDTHail 1Clintonville, 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1996-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 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 1996-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 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 16, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer46 min
Jul 16, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClarion58 min
Jul 16, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMercer25 min
Jul 16, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZClarion47 min
Jul 16, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson64 min
Jul 16, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong56 min
Jul 16, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver42 min
Jul 16, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana55 min
Jul 16, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler, Lawrence67 min
Jul 16, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver39 min
Jul 16, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll27 min
Jul 16, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.