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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2011, 9:19 PM EDT for Guernsey County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2011, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2011, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
County Guernsey County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 6, 7:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 7:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 523 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-070930- 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-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES- FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION- MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 523 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 7:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 919 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011 OHZ039-048-049-057-058-070215- COSHOCTON OH-GUERNSEY OH-HARRISON OH-MUSKINGUM OH-TUSCARAWAS OH- 919 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN HARRISON... NORTHEASTERN MUSKINGUM...NORTHERN GUERNSEY...SOUTHEASTERN COSHOCTON AND SOUTHERN TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES... AT 910 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTH OF COSHOCTON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... COSHOCTON... CONESVILLE... WEST LAFAYETTE... PLAINFIELD... BODEN... NEWCOMERSTOWN... SALT FORK STATE PARK... KIMBOLTON... GILMORE... BIRMINGHAM... PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 4030 8129 4003 8136 4017 8194 4034 8189
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Greene | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 1:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Coshocton | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 10:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Belmont, Harrison, Monroe, Tuscarawas | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Muskingum | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 1:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Wetzel | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 3:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 3 hr |
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.