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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

May 28, 2005Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2005, 4:51 PM EDT for Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 23 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
May 28, 2005, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2005, 5:14 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Armstrong County, PA

The radar

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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 May 28, 2:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
249 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

.AVIATION...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP WITH SHORT WAVE TROUGH
OVER WESTERN OHIO. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POPPING
FURTHER EAST ACROSS FORECAST AREA. CONDITIONS WILL TEMPORARILY LOWER TO
MVFR IN CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. AFTER SURFACE HEATING IS
DONE...STORMS WILL DIMINISH. EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS EARLY TONIGHT...THEN
AREAS OF MVFR CONDITIONS IN FOG LATE TONIGHT.

SCATTERED CUMULUS AROUND 3000 FEET SHOULD REDEVELOP BY MID MORNING
SUNDAY.
&&

.SHORT TERM (THRU MON NIGHT)...
CONVECTION ACROSS FORECAST AREA SHOULD DIMINISH SHORTLY AFTER
SUNSET...BUT WILL KEEP SMALL CHANCE POPS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
OVERNIGHT. ON SUNDAY...WENT WITH CHANCE POPS NORTH AND SLIGHT CHANCE
SOUTH AS UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO SLIDE EAST ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES.
&&

.LONG TERM (TUE THRU SAT)...
SHRA AND TSRA CHCS WL CONT THRU THE 1ST HALF OF THE WEEK AS BROAD AREA
OF LOW PRES EXTENDS FM THE GREAT LAKES TO OFF THE NE COAST. 2ND HALF OF
THE LONG TERM CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO BE DEFINED BY RIDGING/WARM ADVCTN
AS LOW PRES DIGS OVR THE NWRN QUAD OF THE CONUS. IF SO, TEMPS WL
RECOVER TO ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS FOR THE CLOSE OF THE WORK WEEK.

STAYED CLOSE TO HPC POPS TUE, BUT RAISED THEM A BIT TO MATCH NEIGHBORS.
NEXT WEATHER MAKER IS THU, WHEN SFC LO PASSES THRU KY. KEPT POPS HIER
IN S, BUT LOWERED POPS IN N 10% BLO HPC GUIDANCE FOR THE PURPOSES OF
DOVETAILING.
&&

.PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MD...NONE.
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.
&&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 4:24 AM EDT, 12 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
424 AM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-290823-
ALLEGHENY PA-ARMSTRONG PA-BEAVER PA-BELMONT OH-BROOKE WV-BUTLER PA-
CARROLL OH-CLARION PA-COLUMBIANA OH-COSHOCTON OH-FAYETTE PA-
FOREST PA-GARRETT MD-GREENE PA-GUERNSEY OH-HANCOCK WV-HARRISON OH-
INDIANA PA-JEFFERSON PA-JEFFERSON OH-LAWRENCE PA-MARION WV-
MARSHALL WV-MERCER PA-MONONGALIA WV-MONROE OH-MUSKINGUM OH-NOBLE OH-
OHIO WV-PRESTON WV-TUCKER WV-TUSCARAWAS OH-VENANGO PA-WASHINGTON PA-
WESTMORELAND PA-WETZEL WV-
424 AM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY.  THERE IS
A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING, OVER AREAS TO THE SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 70. THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT WILL BE FROM DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS AND HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

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In the hours before

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.