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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 15, 2000Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2000, 6:49 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 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 15, 2000, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 2000-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 341 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 2000-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 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
341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KPBZ 152249
TORPIT
WVC051-152315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
649 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF GLEN DALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND
GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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 14, 10:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZOhio24 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.