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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 25, 1996Washington County, Pennsylvania; Jefferson County, Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1996, 5:10 PM EST for Washington County, Pennsylvania; Jefferson County, Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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
Mar 25, 1996, 5:10 PM EST (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1996, 6:00 PM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jefferson County, OH, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 25, 5:30 PM ESTThunderstorm WindBeallsville, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 1996-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
2350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 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
Mar 25, 5:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland47 min
Mar 25, 5:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny47 min
Mar 25, 4:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.