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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 14, 2000Ohio County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 10:51 PM EDT for Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 24 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
Jun 14, 2000, 10:51 PM EDT (02:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2000, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Ohio County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 10:55 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, WVThunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.

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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1344 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2000-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

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

104 
WUUS51 KPBZ 150251
SVRPIT
WVC069-150315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1051 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OHIO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1115 PM EDT

* AT 1051 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHEELING...MOVING         
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58
MILES AN HOUR AND LARGE HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion39 min
Jun 14, 10:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel59 min
Jun 14, 10:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall35 min
Jun 15, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston61 min
Jun 15, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTucker53 min
Jun 15, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall35 min
Jun 15, 6:49 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMarshall26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.