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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 5, 1996Fayette County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT for Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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
May 5, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 303 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 62 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
62 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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
May 5, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene63 min
May 5, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum64 min
May 5, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe57 min
May 5, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZNoble57 min
May 5, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey55 min
May 5, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe55 min
May 4, 9:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker4 hr
May 5, 12:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZTucker3 hr
May 5, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.