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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at May 7, 2010, 2:38 PM EDT for 12 counties in Pennsylvania; 6 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at May 8, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2010, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 8, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 8, 2010, 8:53 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 7, 2:08 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:08 PM EDT, 30 minutes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.