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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this heat advisory at Jul 2, 2012, 3:03 PM EDT for 7 counties in Ohio; Marion County, Marshall County, Wetzel County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jul 3, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2012, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 3, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Belmont County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 2, 1:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 1:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 9:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Mercer | 58 min |
| Jul 1, 9:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Greene, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 10:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Butler | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Tuscarawas | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 2:24 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PBZ | Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Hancock | 40 min |
| Jul 1, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker | 35 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.