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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2008, 5:13 PM EDT for Washington County, Pennsylvania; Belmont County, Jefferson County, Ohio; Brooke County, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 47 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
- Sep 13, 2008, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Belmont County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Ohio County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Sep 13, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 3:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 338 PM EDT SAT SEP 13 2008 OHZ039-048-049-058-132045- COSHOCTON OH-GUERNSEY OH-HARRISON OH-TUSCARAWAS OH- 338 PM EDT SAT SEP 13 2008 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...GUERNSEY...HARRISON...COSHOCTON AND TUSCARAWAS... AT 333 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PITTSBURGH INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWCOMERSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH. THESE STORMS CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... BIRMINGHAM...CADIZ...CLENDENING...FREEPORT...GILMORE...HOPEDALE... KIMBOLTON...LONDONDERRY...NEW ATHENS...NEWCOMERSTOWN...PIEDMONT... TIPPECANOE...ANTRIM...BELKNAP AND HURFORD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 59 min |
| Sep 13, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Harrison, Tuscarawas | 40 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.