Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2006, 11:40 AM EDT for Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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 3, 2006, 11:40 AM EDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2006, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mercer County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 3, 2:40 AM EDT, 9 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:40 AM EDT, 9 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 4:41 AM EDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 441 AM EDT THU AUG 3 2006 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016- 020>023-029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-040845- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON- JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER- VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER- ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-WESTMORELAND-GREENE- FAYETTE-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA- PRESTON-TUCKER- 441 AM EDT THU AUG 3 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE DISTRICT BY THIS EVENING WILL BRING A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 11:25 AM EDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1125 AM EDT THU AUG 3 2006 PAZ007-031630- MERCER PA- 1125 AM EDT THU AUG 3 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS O MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... MERCER... AT 1119 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PITTSBURGH INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES NORTH OF SHARON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... FARRELL...FREDONIA...GROVE CITY...HERMITAGE...MAURICE K GODDARD STATE PARK...MERCER...SHARON AND STONEBORO KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.