Alert archive / Ohio / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this red flag warning at Jun 28, 2012, 9:31 AM EDT for Monroe County, Muskingum County, Noble County, Ohio. It took effect at Jun 28, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Jun 28, 2012, 9:31 AM EDT (13:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 28, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2012, 7:42 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 2455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
461 WWUS81 KPBZ 281331 RFWPBZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 931 AM EDT THU JUN 28 2012 ...DRY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON... .HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE TO THE EAST OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE. DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN LARGELY IN THE 50S...SO RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL AS HIGH REACH THE MID AND UPPER 90S. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY TO BE MET WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AND BREEZY CONDITIONS IN MUSKINGUM...NOBLE...AND MONROE COUNTIES. OHZ057-068-069-290000- /O.NEW.KPBZ.FW.W.0002.120628T1600Z-120629T0000Z/ MUSKINGUM-NOBLE-MONROE- 931 AM EDT THU JUN 28 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING: NOON TO 8 PM. * WIND: SOUTHWEST AROUND 15 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 25 MPH. * HUMIDITY: DROPPING TO AROUND 30 PERCENT BY AFTERNOON. * TEMPERATURES AND STABILITY: HIGHS WILL REACH THE MID TO UPPER 90S...WITH STABLE CONDITIONS THROUGH AFTERNOON. * THUNDERSTORM THREAT: THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE LOW THIS AFTERNOON...BUT INCREASE LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
910 WWUS81 KPBZ 282342 RFWPBZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 742 PM EDT THU JUN 28 2012 OHZ057-068-069-290045- /O.CAN.KPBZ.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120629T0000Z/ MUSKINGUM-NOBLE-MONROE- 742 PM EDT THU JUN 28 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. DEW POINTS HAVE RISEN ACROSS THE REGION AND THE WARNING IS CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 3:05 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 5 more | 28 hr |
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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.