Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 22, 2002Fayette County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 9:27 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: Aug 22, 2002, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2002, 10:00 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 01:27 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 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 Aug 22, 8:49 PM EDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 8:49 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
849 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002

HRLY RUC ANAL TRENDS SHOWS E-W THERMAL/MOISTURE BOUNDARY MOVG SWD
THRU CWA...FASTER THAN BUT AS INDICATED BY 18Z ETA. OBS AND RUC ALSO
SHW WAVE DEVELOPING ALG BNDRY W OF CWA. ETA INDCS THIS WAVE WL PUSH
BNDRY SLOLY NWD FRI AM...LEAVING MUCH OF CWA IN HUMID AMS. SWRS AND
TSTMS WL BE AIDED ON FRI BY LEFT ENTRANCE REGION OF UPR JET.

WL REDUCE POPS OVRNGT NRN PARTS OF CWA...BUT LEAVE LIKELY POPS SRN
PARTS OF CWA. AREAS OF FOG WL LIKELY DEVELOP OVRNGT. WL LEAVE FRI
ALONE...TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY.

FCSTID =   12

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

WDK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 5:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
547 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

0530 PM    HERMITAGE                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   MERCER                         NUMEROUS LARGE TREES BLOWN
                                          DOWN.REPORTED BY SKYWARN
                                          SPOTTERS

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
624 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

0530 PM    HERMITAGE                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   MERCER                         NUMEROUS LARGE TREES BLOWN
                                          DOWN.REPORTED BY SKYWARN
                                          SPOTTERS

0600 PM    SLIPPERY ROCK             PA   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   BUTLER                         LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Aug 22, 7:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
704 PM EDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

0530 PM    HERMITAGE                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   MERCER                         NUMEROUS LARGE TREES BLOWN
                                          DOWN.REPORTED BY SKYWARN
                                          SPOTTERS

0600 PM    SLIPPERY ROCK             PA   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   BUTLER                         LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0605 PM    PULASKI                   PA   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   LAWRENCE                       LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT

Local storm report, Aug 22, 9:27 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	60 min
Aug 22, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	63 min
Aug 22, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	31 min
Aug 23, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	60 min
Aug 23, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.