Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 6:42 PM EDT for Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 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 13, 2001, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 67 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 13, 3:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 346 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001 STORMS WITH HVY DWNPRS HAVE DVLPD AS PROJ ALONG RIDGE CNTYS IN SE SXNS CWA...WILL HAVE THESE 3 CNTYS TO FFA THRU EVEING AS SLOW MOVING PWS NR 1.5/LIFT/ LOW LVL MOISTURE ABOUNDS...WILL DISSIPATE AFT SS. OTRW UPPER RIDGE AMPLIFIES OVER NERN US WHILE REMNANTS ALLISON MOVES SLOWLY TWD ERN NC COAST. HUMID CONDS CONT. WILL KEEP 30 POPS AGAIN THRS AFTN IN RDG CNTYS. ETA/AVN MDLS SIMILAR IN FRONTAL BNDRY SLOWING UP IN ITS EWD MVMT FRI WHILE PLENTY OF MOISTURE BROUGHT NWD FROM ALLISON INTO REGION BY FRI EVE WHEN PRECIP SHOULD ABOUND MORE. EXPECT PRECIP TO LINGER BEHIND SYSTEM SATURDAY. .PBZ... MD...MDZ001-FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 9PM EDT THIS EVENING. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...WVZ023-041-FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 9PM EDT WED EVENING.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
203 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 PM 7 S CALDWELL OH WIND DAMAGE
06/12/01 NOBLE TREES DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.