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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2006, 2:02 AM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 1, 2006, 2:02 AM EDT (06:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2006, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Belmont County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 31, 2:10 PM EDT, 11 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:10 PM EDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 210 PM EDT WED MAY 31 2006 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)... UPPER HIGH/RIDGE OVER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CLEARLY EVIDENT BY WATCHING IR SAT LOOP. CLOUDS ACROSS LAKE ERIE ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AND CLOUD COVER ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA IS MOVING SSW. ATTM SCATTERED CONVECTION IS ROTATING CLOCKWISE AROUND OUR FORECAST AREA. EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THE NEAREST THUNDERSTORM IS JUST EAST KMFD. DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WE EXPECT TO SEE AN INCREASE IN CONVECTION AS CONDITIONS ARE VERY UNSTABLE. WE ARE IN SLIGHT RISK AREA FOR DAY ONE AND THIS LOOKS REASONABLE. GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS DUE TO DAMAGING TSTM WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN FROM SLOW MOVING TSTMS. COOL FRONT MOVES THROUGH OUR AREA AROUND SUNRISE THURSDAY BRINGING TEMPS DOWN TO NEAR NORMAL LEVELS. MAIN COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MORNING TAKING TEMPS BELOW NORMAL. && .LONG TERM (THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... SURFACE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE SLOW PROGRESS EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA FRIDAY. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT AND CHANCE POPS FOR FRIDAY. AN UPPER TROUGH WILL PUSH ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES SATURDAY AND INTO NEW ENGLAND BY SUNDAY. ASSOCIATED COLD POOL ALOFT SHOULD KEEP ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE ENOUGH FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY DURING THE DAYLIGHT PERIODS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. MONDAY AND TUESDAY SHOULD BE DRY. THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS INTO THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. && .AVIATION... MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS THROUGH THURSDAY. ALSO MVFR VSBYS IN BR/HZ AROUND SUNRISE. OTHERWISE...OUTSIDE OF PCPN AND BR/HZ AREAS EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT 5 TO 10 KTS SHIFTING TO WEST THEN NORTHWEST AT SAME SPEEDS AROUND DAYBREAK THURSDAY. GUSTY WINDS IN/NEAR TSTMS. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 11:01 AM EDT, 15 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1101 AM EDT WED MAY 31 2006 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016- 020>023-029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-011515- 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- 1101 AM EDT WED MAY 31 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 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE TOWARD THE AREA LATER TODAY AND OVERNIGHT. IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD. ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 31, 9:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 1, 3:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 42 min |
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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.