Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2003, 6:08 PM EDT for Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2003, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Westmoreland County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
458
WFUS51 KPBZ 122208
TORPBZ
PAC129-122300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
608 PM EDT THU JUN 12 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTMORELAND COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF ARNOLD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
ARNOLD...
LOWER BURRELL...
NEW KENSINGTON...
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.
LAT...LON 4068 7967 4064 7962 4056 7973 4055 7977
4059 7977 4063 7970The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 5:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 6:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 6:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 6:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 7:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 65 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.