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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 28, 2013Belmont County, Guernsey County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2013, 11:42 AM EDT for Belmont County, Guernsey County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 min. 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, 2013, 11:42 AM EDT (15:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2013, 12:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Belmont County, OH, Guernsey County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2013-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 842 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2013-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
842 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 28, 11:19 AM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 11:19 AM EDT, 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1119 AM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

.SYNOPSIS...
A BROAD UPPER-LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL LINGER OVER THE
GREAT LAKES INTO NEXT WEEK. PERIODIC DISTURBANCES WILL SUPPORT
DAILY ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/...
CLDS BCMG BKN ATTM...LEADING TO PARTIAL INSOLATION OF A VERY MOIST
AND WKLY-CAPPED AMS. A PLUME OF STEEPER MID-LVL LAPSE RATES IS
SPREADING ACRS SRN HALF OF FCST AREA...SUPPLEMENTED FURTHER BY H5
COLD POOL MOVG SEWD FROM MI IN ASSOCIATION WITH APRCHG SHRTWV TROF.
THIS COLD POOL WILL AID IN DVLPMT OF TWO FOCUSED AREAS OF CNVCTN.

ONE CLUSTER HAS BCM MORE VIGOROUS AS OF 15Z IN VCTY OF KERI. THESE
TSTMS WILL MOVE EWD AND WILL RMN GENLY ELEVATED OWING TO COOL
LOW-LVL TEMPS. A FEW OF THESE TSTMS MAY GRAZE NRN ZONES.

SECOND CLUSTER IS SHOWING SIGNS OF DVLPMT IN SERN OH AND NRN WV...
ONLY SLGTLY AHD OF THEIR DVLPMT IN HI-RES MODELS. THIS CNVCTN IS
LOCATED IN PLUME OF STEEPER LAPSE RATES...HIGHER BNDRY-LYR MSTR
AND BETTER INSOLATION. GIVEN AMPLE BULK SHEAR FOR ORGANIZED
UPDRAFTS...THIS CLUSTER XPCD TO POSE GREATER THREAT OF SVR WX THIS
AFTN AS HEATING CONTS. STRAIGHT-LINE HODOGRAPHS SUGGEST VERY LOW
RISK OF TORNADOES...BUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDS FAVOR DMGG WIND GUSTS
AND HAIL.

PCPN WILL SPREAD SEWD THIS EVE. RENEWED SHWRS MAY DVLP LATE TNGT
VCTY KCLE AND KERI AND COULD IMPACT NWRN ZONES. CLD CVR WILL LMT
COOLING A BIT...BUT MINIMA SHOULD APRCH DEWPT TEMPS OVNGT. A BIT
OF FOG THUS WILL BE PSBL.

LOW-LVL AMS WILL NOT CHG ON SAT...BUT LAPSE RATES XPCD TO BE WKR.
THUS...WEAKER INSTBY WILL NOT FAVOR SVR WX TMW. BUT TSTMS STILL
LKLY TO DVLP...SPCLY ALONG A STALLED FRONTAL BNDRY FROM NR KERI-
KAKR. POPS WERE INCRD TO LKLY CATEGORY IN NWRN-WRN ZONES AS A
RESULT. MAXIMA WILL BE IN THE 70S AREAWIDE.   UPDATE...KRAMAR

&&

.SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/...
UPPER LEVEL CUT OFF LOW CONTINUES UNUSUAL RETROGRESSION SOUTHWEST
THROUGH THIS PERIOD. SURFACE LOW FOLLOWS SUIT...SLIDING OVER OHIO
VALLEY. COLD POOL ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH H5 LOW OF -12C TO -14C
DRIFTS SOUTHWEST AS WELL. THIS WILL AID IN DIURNAL CLOUDS AND
PRECIP. WENT WITH DIURNAL TREND IN POPS. ANY LINGERING PRECIP IN
EVENING TO BE SHOWERS AND WITH ADDED DAYTIME INSTABILITY BROUGHT
IN CHANCE THUNDER.

MODELS AGREE ON SOUTHWEST RETROGRESSION OF THE H5 LOW BUT
PINPOINTING HIGHEST POPS AT THIS TIME DIFFICULT. BOTH NAM AND GFS
SUGGESTING LIKELY POPS LATE AFTERNOON ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
HOWEVER...POSITIONING OF LIKELY POPS DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON MODEL.
OPTED TO KEEP POPS IN THE HIGH CHC CATEGORY DUE TO UNCERTAINTY.

&&

.LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
SAME OLE-SAME OLE WITH H5 LOW CONTINUING OVER CENTRAL OHIO VALLEY.
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FIELD IN PLACE AND...WITH CONTINUED COOL POOL
ALOFT...EXPECT MORE DIURNAL ENHANCEMENT OF PRECIP. IN FACT...SURE
LOOKS LIKE WE NEVER EXPERIENCE AN AIR MASS CHANGE. UPPER LOW
GRADUALLY FILLS AND MOVES NORTHWARD BY END OF PERIOD AND EXTENSION
OF BERMUDA HIGH THEN EXTENDS WESTWARD. CONTINUED CHANCE SHOWERS
AND THE POSSIBILITY OF AFTERNOON OR EVENING THUNDERSTORM.

&&

.AVIATION /15Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
MAINLY IFR CONDS WITH EITHER LOW CIGS OR LOW VIS ACRS THE RGN THIS
MRNG. CONDS ARE EPXD TO GRDLY IMPROVE TO MVFR LATER THIS
MRNG...AND VFR BY AFTN. SCT SHWRS/TSTMS ARE EXPD ONCE AGAIN TDA.
MENTIONED VCSH IN THE TAFS...BUT DUE TO QNABLE COVG AND TIMING OF
CNVCTN...LEFT OUT MENTION OF TSTMS ATTM. PCPN SHOULD GRDLY DMNSH
THIS EVE...WITH MVFR TO IFR BR/FG DVLPG AGAIN LT TNGT.

OUTLOOK.../SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
RESTRNS IN SHWRS AND TSTMS ARE EXPD THRU THE PD AS SEVERAL
DISTURBANCES MOVE ACRS THE RGN.

&&

.PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MD...NONE.
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 8:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
852 AM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ020-021-023-029-031-
073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-291300-
GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-
JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-BEAVER-
ALLEGHENY-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-
FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-
MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER-
852 AM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
THIS EVENING. THE STRONGER STORMS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH
THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

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

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

PAZ007>009-013>016-022-291300-
MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-ARMSTRONG-
852 AM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND
WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING THURSDAY HAS LEFT SOIL
CONDITIONS SATURATED. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THESE STORMS WOULD
LEAD TO A LOCALIZED FLASH FLOOD RISK THROUGH THIS EVENING.

.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.

MANNING

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 12:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZWashington35 min
Jun 28, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene49 min
Jun 28, 12:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington47 min
Jun 28, 12:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWashington3 hr
Jun 28, 1:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZWashington39 min
Jun 28, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene50 min
Jun 28, 1:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette, Washington, Westmoreland63 min
Jun 28, 1:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette, Greene68 min
Jun 28, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny57 min
Jun 28, 1:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZFayette2 hr
Jun 28, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZFayette, Greene46 min
Jun 28, 2:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZWestmoreland26 min
Jun 28, 2:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZWestmoreland55 min
Jun 28, 2:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZJefferson43 min
Jun 28, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson55 min
Jun 28, 2:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZJefferson3 hr
Jun 28, 3:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZButler, Lawrence44 min
Jun 28, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler, Lawrence67 min
Jun 28, 3:39 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZFayette, Washington3 hr
Jun 28, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong41 min
Jun 28, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Beaver, Washington47 min
Jun 28, 4:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZIndiana3 hr
Jun 28, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington39 min
Jun 28, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong, Indiana45 min
Jun 28, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny62 min
Jun 28, 5:35 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZAllegheny3 hr
Jun 28, 5:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZWestmoreland47 min
Jun 28, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana, Westmoreland65 min
Jun 27, 8:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZMuskingum42 min
Jun 28, 11:09 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZGuernsey36 min
Jun 28, 11:59 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZMuskingum31 min
Jun 28, 12:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZNoble25 min
Jun 28, 12:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZMuskingum37 min
Jun 28, 12:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont24 min
Jun 28, 12:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMuskingum35 min
Jun 28, 12:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZBelmont3 hr
Jun 28, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Noble56 min
Jun 28, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCarroll, Columbiana, Jefferson61 min
Jun 28, 3:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZCoshocton, Tuscarawas51 min
Jun 28, 6:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZGuernsey24 min
Jun 28, 11:51 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZTucker39 min
Jun 28, 12:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZBrooke29 min
Jun 28, 12:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZMarshall51 min
Jun 28, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion, Wetzel61 min
Jun 28, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston70 min
Jun 28, 2:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZMarion83 min
Jun 28, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZPreston34 min
Jun 28, 4:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZHancock23 min

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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.