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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 15, 2000Venango County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 12:25 AM EDT for Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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 15, 2000, 12:25 AM EDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2000, 1:30 AM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Venango County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 1:05 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Oil City, PA	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.

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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 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

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, 9:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
915 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

NO BIG CHGS PLANNED FOR EVE ZNS. AREA OF TSTMS FM SERN OH INTO CNTRL
WVA IS HOLDING TOGETHER THIS EVE AND MOVG NEWD INTO OUR FA. SO WL
KEEP MENTION OF SCT TSTMS OVRNGT. RAISED MIN TEMPS A COUPLE OF
DEGS...65 TO 70 IN MTNS AND NORTH...ARND 70 ELSW.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 10:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1035 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 PM    CLARINGTON                OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   MONROE                         TREES BLOWN DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 10:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1050 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1040 PM    MOUNDSVILLE               WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   MARSHALL                       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 11:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1115 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0910 PM    MANNINGTON                WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   MARION                         PART OF LARGE TREE BLEW DOWN,
                                          IMPACTING HOUSE.

1035 PM    NEW MARTINSVILLE          WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   WETZEL                         NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWNED BY WIND.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 11:50 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1150 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1140 PM    CORAOPOLIS                PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   ALLEGHENY                      TREES DOWN ON SNYDER ROAD
                                          IN MOON TWP.

Local storm report, Jun 15, 12:05 AM EDT, 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 10:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	61 min
Jun 14, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	57 min
Jun 14, 11:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	67 min
Jun 14, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Butler	63 min
Jun 15, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	57 min
Jun 14, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	59 min
Jun 14, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion	39 min
Jun 14, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	35 min
Jun 14, 10:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Ohio	24 min
Jun 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston	61 min
Jun 15, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tucker	53 min
Jun 15, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	35 min
Jun 15, 6:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Marshall	26 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.