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Freeze Warning 10, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

April 12, 201213 counties in Pennsylvania; Columbiana County, Ohio; Hancock County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this freeze warning at Apr 12, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT for 13 counties in Pennsylvania; Columbiana County, Ohio; Hancock County, West Virginia. It took effect at Apr 13, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 12, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 13, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 13, 2012, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Counties Columbiana County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Hancock County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 11, 6:40 PM EDT, 19 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 6:40 PM EDT, 19 hours 51 minutes before

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Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2012 Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2012 Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2012 Every freeze warning in 2012

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.