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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT for Beaver County, Pennsylvania; Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was in force for 56 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
- Aug 5, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Beaver County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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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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 Aug 5, 7:54 AM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 7:54 AM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 332 AM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-060745- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON- JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO- FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY- ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES- FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION- MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 332 AM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...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 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 10:07 AM EDT, 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 5, 11:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Venango | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 11:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 5:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Indiana, Washington, Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Westmoreland | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 12:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Coshocton | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 1:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 1:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Harrison | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 2:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 10:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Guernsey, Harrison | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Marshall | 54 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2012Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2012Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 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.