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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Mar 30, 2012, 4:14 PM EDT for Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 31 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, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2012, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
County Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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, 3:47 PM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 3:47 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
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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, 34 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
414 PM EDT FRI MAR 30 2012
WVZ012-302045-
WETZEL WV-
414 PM EDT FRI MAR 30 2012
...HEAVY RAIN...
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN TO MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
WETZEL...
AT 412 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PITTSBURGH
SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES WEST OF PORTERS FALLS...
OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF NEW MARTINSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.
SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE
PONDED WATER ON ROADS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. VISIBILITY CAN BE
REDUCED.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED BY THESE THUNDERSTORMS
INCLUDE...
PORTERS FALLS... PINE GROVE... WILEYVILLE...
JACKSONBURG... BIG RUN... SMITHFIELD...
KNOB FORK... FOLSOM... LITTLETON...
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
PLEASE REPORT HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING PROBLEMS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.
LAT...LON 3945 8058 3944 8061 3946 8064 3947 8071
3955 8079 3956 8083 3959 8085 3968 8087
3972 8047 3944 8052 3944 8058The 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, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Monroe | 35 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, 4:44 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 West Virginia, 2012Every 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.