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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2008, 10:02 PM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio; Marshall County, Ohio County, West Virginia. 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
- Aug 1, 2008, 10:02 PM EDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Belmont County, OH, Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 1, 7:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 7:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 742 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN SATURDAY NIGHT AND PROVIDE DRY WEATHER THROUGH MONDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/... STRONG SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL PUSH SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES TONIGHT AND INTO CENTRAL PA/NY BY MIDDAY SATURDAY. ATMOSPHERE SHOULD REMAIN QUITE UNSTABLE TONIGHT AS PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE STAYS IN PLACE THROUGHOUT THE OHIO VALLEY. SURFACE DEW POINTS ARE IN THE LOWER 60S OVER WESTERN PA INCREASING TO LOWER 70S UPSTREAM OVER PARTS OF INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. NEARLY STATIONARY SURFACE BOUNDARY STRETCHED ACROSS OH SHOULD HELP TO PROVIDE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION TONIGHT. HIGH CHANCE POPS OVERNIGHT EXCEPT FOR ACROSS THE FAR NORTH. LOOKS LIKE BEST CHANCE WILL BE AROUND 12Z AS FRONT PASSES THROUGH. POPS TAPERING ALL ZONES BY LATE AFTERNOON. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FROM THE NORTHWEST SATURDAY NIGHT AND SHOULD REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. DRIER AIR WILL ALLOW NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES TO DROP TO A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL WITH AFTERNOON READINGS AT OR A LITTLE ABOVE THE NORM. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... EASTERN CONUS TROUGH IS PROJECTED TO BEGIN DEVELOPING IN THE FLOW PATTERN DURING THE LONG TERM PERIOD. FORECAST WILL THUS BE OF A MID WEEK COLD FRONT AND WILL FEATURE NEAR CLIMO/CHANCE POPS WITH INITIALLY WARM TEMPERATURES FALLING TO NEAR NORMAL, THEN BELOW THE SEASONAL AVERAGES. && .AVIATION /00Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... JUDGING FROM RECENT SREF MODEL RUNS EXPECT ONSET OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. CONSIDERING THAT SURFACE LAYER CAN BE MOISTENED BY RAIN TONIGHT...EXPECT AT LEAST PATCHY FOG AND IFR SATURDAY MORNING. VARIOUS MODELS INDICATED SURFACE DRYING AND VFR THE REST OF SATURDAY INTO AT LEAST MONDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE FROM NORTHERN PLAINS MOVES ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY. ANOTHER SLOW COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL SPAWN AT LEAST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND POTENTIAL IFR CONDITIONS BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 3:59 PM EDT, 6 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 359 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-022000- 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- 359 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 12:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.