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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 18, 2012Noble County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2012, 8:33 PM EDT for Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 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: Mar 18, 2012, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

County Noble County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Guernsey	28 min
Mar 18, 10:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Muskingum	64 min
Mar 18, 11:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Noble	33 min
Mar 19, 12:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	34 min
Mar 19, 12:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	46 min
Mar 19, 2:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe	66 min
Mar 19, 3:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe	43 min
Mar 19, 5:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe	45 min
Mar 19, 5:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Belmont	3 hr
Mar 19, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monroe	25 min
Mar 18, 10:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Marshall, Ohio, Wetzel	63 min
Mar 19, 4:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Wetzel	40 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2012 Every special weather statement 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.