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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 14, 2000Indiana County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 4:47 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 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
Jun 14, 2000, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Indiana County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 2000-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 304 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 2000-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
315 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

HIGH HUMIDITY WILL REMAIN OVER THE OHIO HEADWATERS INTO THURSDAY.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS EVENING PER INSTABILITY
GENERATED BY EXCESS DAYTIME HEATING. THE MIDWEST SYSTEM MAY GENERATE
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT...BUT MORE LIKELY DURING
THURSDAY. AS THE SYSTEM EXITS...THE THREAT OF STORMS SHOULD ABATE
THURSDAY NIGHT FROM PITTSBURGH NORTH. HOWEVER THE AVN HINTS THE
THREAT MAY LINGER ALONG THE MASON DIXON LINE INTO FRIDAY AS
DEFORMATION MAY KEEP A BOUNDARY OVER THOSE LOCATIONS.

FOR THE EXTENDED...AVN AND MRF SHOW A SECOND SYSTEM RENEWING THE
THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE WEEKEND...BUT DRIER AIR COULD BE
ARRIVING LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES ONLY NEEDED
TWEAKING. ..GIORDANO

PIT   69  83  64  86 /  30  60  30  20
MGW   70  85  67  85 /  30  60  30  30

.PBZ...
MD...xNONE.
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
MDZ001-WVZ041-141915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
237 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

...THUNDERSTORM UPDATE...
THUNDERSTORMS OVER GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND AND TUCKER COUNTY WEST
VIRGINIA WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING. THESE  MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PUTTING DOWN
HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN IN A SHORT TIME WITH PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS A POSSIBILITY. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE.

THESE STORMS ARE BEING CAUSED BY A STORM SYSTEM WHICH WILL CONTINUE
TO BRING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE REGION DURING THE NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:27 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
427 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

..THUNDERSTORM UPDATE...
THUNDERSTORMS OVER JEFFERSON AND INDIANA COUNTIES IN WESTERN
PENNSYLVANIA WILL CONTAIN WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. HEAVY
RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME CAN CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THESE STORMS ARE BEING CAUSED BY A STORM SYSTEM WHICH WILLz CONTINUE
TO BRING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE REGION DURING THE NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS.

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.