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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 30, 2012Monroe County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Mar 30, 2012, 3:40 PM EDT for Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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 30, 2012, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

County Monroe County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 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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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 Mar 30, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 10:12 AM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1012 AM EDT FRI MAR 30 2012

MDZ001-PAZ009-016-023-074-076-WVZ023-041-311415-
GARRETT-FOREST-JEFFERSON PA-INDIANA-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-
FAYETTE RIDGES-PRESTON-TUCKER-
1012 AM EDT FRI MAR 30 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

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.

OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007-008-013>015-020>022-029-
031-073-075-WVZ001>004-012-021-022-311415-
TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH-
MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO-LAWRENCE-
BUTLER-CLARION-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-WASHINGTON-GREENE-
WESTMORELAND-FAYETTE-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-
MONONGALIA-
1012 AM EDT FRI MAR 30 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL
PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF
WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TODAY AND
THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL IS THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT...BUT
DAMAGING WIND AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

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, Mar 30, 3:40 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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 30, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Indiana	26 min
Mar 30, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Coshocton, Tuscarawas	58 min
Mar 30, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson, Tuscarawas	44 min
Mar 30, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 2 more	53 min
Mar 30, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Wetzel	31 min
Mar 30, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	46 min
Mar 30, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Preston, Tucker	43 min
Mar 30, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Garrett	33 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.