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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

August 19, 2004Indiana County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2004, 3:01 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 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: Aug 19, 2004, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Indiana County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 19, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -234 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KPBZ 191901
TORPBZ
PAC063-192000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
301 PM EDT THU AUG 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  INDIANA COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 259 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SALTSBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHELOCTA...
  BLAIRSVILLE...
  HOMER CITY...
  INDIANA...
  NEW FLORENCE...
  ARMAGH...
  YELLOW CREEK STATE PARK...

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.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 4040 7898 4042 7904 4038 7906 4038 7913
      4039 7912 4043 7923 4042 7926 4047 7934
      4045 7939 4049 7945 4053 7945 4066 7933
      4067 7902 4055 7891

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Butler	50 min
Aug 19, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	39 min
Aug 19, 2:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	33 min
Aug 19, 2:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Indiana	34 min
Aug 19, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	59 min
Aug 19, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	42 min
Aug 19, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	60 min
Aug 19, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	65 min
Aug 19, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	55 min
Aug 19, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	62 min
Aug 19, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	55 min
Aug 19, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	52 min
Aug 19, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	67 min
Aug 19, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	63 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.