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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 28, 1997Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 3:48 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 42 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 28, 1997, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 448 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

418 
WUUS1 KPIT 281954
SVRPIT
WVC093-282030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED 1ST PARAGRAPH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
348 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA

   ...TUCKER COUNTY

AT 340 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN EXTREME NORTHWEST TUCKER COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE...ST. GEORGE...PARSONS...AND THOMAS.

TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.
DONT USE TELEPHONES OR APPLIANCES UNLESS ITS AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
230 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON                OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    COSHOCTON                      TREE LIMBS DOWN

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

0200 PM     SCENERY HILL             PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

0200 PM     WAYNESBURG               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    GREENE                         TREES DOWN

215 PM      UNIONTOWN                PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    FAYETTE                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

PALKO

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
230 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON                OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    COSHOCTON                      TREE LIMBS DOWN

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

200 PM      SCENERY HILL             PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

200 PM      WAYNESBURG               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    GREENE                         TREES DOWN

215 PM      UNIONTOWN                PA    WIND DAMAGE
07*/28/97    FAYETTE                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

PALKO

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
230 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON                OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    COSHOCTON                      TREE LIMBS DOWN

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

0200 PM     SCENERY HILL             PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

0200 PM     WAYNESBURG               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    GREENE                         TREES DOWN

215 PM      UNIONTOWN                PA    WIND DAMAGE.
07/28/97    FAYETTE                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

PALKO

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:18 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
320 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON                OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    COSHOCTON                      TREE LIMBS DOWN

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

0200 PM     SCENERY HILL             PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

0200 PM     WAYNESBURG               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    GREENE                         TREES DOWN

0215 PM     UNIONTOWN                PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    FAYETTE                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

0230 PM     WASHINGTON               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY
                                           PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

0300 PM     DEEP CREEK               MD    WIND DAMAGE
            GARRETT                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                           TREE DOWN ON CAR

PALKO

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:20 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
320 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON                OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    COSHOCTON                      TREE LIMBS DOWN

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

0200 PM     SCENERY HILL             PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

0200 PM     WAYNESBURG               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    GREENE                         TREES DOWN

0215 PM     UNIONTOWN                PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    FAYETTE                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

0230 PM     WASHINGTON               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY
                                           PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

0300 PM     DEEP CREEK               MD    WIND DAMAGE
            GARRETT                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                           TREE DOWN ON CAR

PALKO

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:40 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
340 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EST)  ....CITY LOCATION....     STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION...
1150 AM     COSHOCTON                OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    COSHOCTON                      TREE LIMBS DOWN

1249 PM     BARNESVILLE              OH    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    BELMONT                        BARN BLOWN DOWN

0200 PM     SCENERY HILL             PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

0200 PM     WAYNESBURG               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    GREENE                         TREES DOWN

0215 PM     UNIONTOWN                PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    FAYETTE                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

0230 PM     WASHINGTON               PA    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    WASHINGTON                     TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY
                                           PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

0245 PM     MORGANTOWN               WV    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    MONONGALIA                     POWER LINES DOWN

0300 PM     DEEP CREEK               MD    WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97    GARRETT                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                           TREE DOWN ON CAR

PALKO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	29 min
Jul 28, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	49 min
Jul 28, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Wetzel	60 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	41 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.