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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 2, 2000Indiana County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 4:17 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 min. 3 reports 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 2, 2000, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 5:20 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Indiana County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 4:32 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, PA	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees across the county.
Jun 2, 4:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Clymer, PA	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees.
Jun 2, 5:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Blairsville, PA	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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-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: 798 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

455 
WUUS51 KPBZ 022017
SVRPIT
PAC063-022115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
417 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  INDIANA COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 520 PM EDT

* AT 417 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CHEVY CHASE HEIGHTS...OR ABOUT 2 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF INDIANA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLYMER AT 425 PM EDT.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  LUCERNE MINES
  INDIANA
  CLYMER
  CHEVY CHASE HEIGHTS

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

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 2, 3:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
305 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

RADAR SHOWS PREFRONTAL SQUALL LINE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 KNOTS
THROUGH THE OHIO HEADWATERS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS SHOULD
BE EXITING THE SOUTHERNMOST COUNTIES IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH BY THE 6-7 PM EXPIRATION TIME. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH
LATER THIS EVENING WITH DRIER AIR BEHIND IT. THE ONLY LINGERING
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING WILL BE IN NORTHERN WEST
VIRGINIA AND WESTERN MARYLAND.

SATURDAY LOOKS NICE AND SUNNY. THE NEXT SHORT WAVE TROUGH FROM THE
WEST WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD CLOUDS ACROSS THE OHIO HEADWATERS SUNDAY
WITH THE FIRST CHANCE OF RAIN SUNDAY NIGHT. THE BULK OF THE RAIN
WILL BE MONDAY WITH THE LOW CENTER PASSAGE. SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO
TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES LOOKED
REASONABLE.

.PBZ
.SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM 100 PM EDT FRIDAY UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FRIDAY FOR ZONES OHZ039>041...OHZ048>050...OHZ057>059...OHZ068-069.

PA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 600 PM EDT FRIDAY FOR ZONES
PAZ007>009...PAZ013>016...PAZ020>023...PAZ029>032.

WV...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM 100 PM EDT FRIDAY UNTIL 700 PM
EDT FRIDAY FOR ZONES WVZ001>004...WVZ012...WVZ021>022.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
308 PM EDT FRI JUN 02 2000

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

0300 PM    ELLWOOD CITY              PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   LAWRENCE                       TREES DOWN

0300 PM    ELLWOOD CITY              PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   BEAVER                         TREES DOWN

N

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:23 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
323 PM EDT FRI JUN 02 2000

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

0309 PM    SALINEVILLE               OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   COLUMBIANA                     TREES DOWN

N

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
326 PM EDT FRI JUN 02 2000

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

0325 PM    COLUMBIANA                OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   COLUMBIANA                     TREES DOWN

N

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:44 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
344 PM EDT FRI JUN 02 2000

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

0324 PM    NEW BRIGHTON              PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   BEAVER                         TREE DOWN

N

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:57 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
357 PM EDT FRI JUN 02 2000

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

0340 PM    DRESDEN                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   MUSKINGUM                      TREES DOWN

0345 PM    JEWETT                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   HARRISON                       TREE DOWN

0355 PM    WEST VIEW                 PA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/00   ALLEGHENY

N

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:06 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
406 PM EDT FRI JUN 02 2000

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

0330 PM    EVANS CITY                PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/00   BUTLER                         TREES DOWN

0357 PM    ALLISON PARK              PA   .5 INCH HAIL
06/02/00   ALLEGHENY

0402 PM    IMPERIAL                  PA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/00   ALLEGHENY

0402 PM    FROSTBURG                 PA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/00   JEFFERSON

N

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Venango	58 min
Jun 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Mercer	59 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Lawrence	57 min
Jun 2, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	57 min
Jun 2, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Butler	61 min
Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	64 min
Jun 2, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	65 min
Jun 2, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	60 min
Jun 2, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	56 min
Jun 2, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	27 min
Jun 2, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Venango	57 min
Jun 2, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	64 min
Jun 2, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	59 min

Nearby

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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.