Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Issued

Aug 25, 2003, 11:24 PM EDT (03:24 UTC)

Expired

Aug 26, 2003, 12:30 AM EDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Armstrong County, PA

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS51 KPBZ 260324
SVRPBZ
PAC005-260430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1125 PM EDT MON AUG 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT

* AT 1125 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LENAPE HEIGHTS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  FORD CITY...
  KITTANNING...
  LENAPE HEIGHTS...
  WEST HILLS...
  WEST KITTANNING...

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

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN
DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 4096 7958 4077 7966 4062 7942 4079 7926

NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 25, 10:40 PM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1040 PM EDT MON AUG 25 2003

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO FORM ACROSS WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA IN
HUMID AIR AND DEVELOPING WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS SHOWN BY RECENT
RUC. MENTIONED HAIL, HEAVY RAIN, LIGHTNING, AND HIGH WINDS POSSIBLE
WITH STORMS, NORTH OF I-70.

PER SPC DISCUSSION AND ETA, EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS OVER WISCONSIN AND
MICHIGAN TO MOVE ACROSS UPPER OHIO VALLEY TUESDAY. REST UNCHANGED.
...GIORDANO

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

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-250900-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
500 AM EDT MON AUG 25 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND
GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

.SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ON TUESDAY AND AGAIN ON
WEDNESDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION.  SOME OF THESE
STORMS MAY BY STRONG TO SEVERE.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

PAZ013-014-022-260400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1012 PM EDT MON AUG 25 2003

...NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER LAWRENCE, BUTLER, AND ARMSTRONG
COUNTIES.  THEY ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL, HAIL, AND GUSTY WINDS ARE ALL LIKLEY WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS.  ALSO, FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURING,
SO POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE.

WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES, MOVE INDOORS.  YOUR CAR OFFERS
GOOD LIGHTNING PROTECTION.

REHAK

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.