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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 60 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
- Sep 2, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2013, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carroll County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1628 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 Sep 2, 3:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 324 PM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007-013-014-020>023-029- 031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-031930- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON- JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-LAWRENCE- BUTLER-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-GREENE- WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK- BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 324 PM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. 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. PAZ008-009-015-016-031930- VENANGO-FOREST-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA- 324 PM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 510 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. 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. 07
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Special weather statement, Sep 2, 1:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 1:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 1:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Armstrong | 27 min |
| Sep 2, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson | 33 min |
| Sep 2, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Indiana | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Forest | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Forest | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Sep 2, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Jefferson | 51 min |
| Sep 2, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Indiana | 43 min |
| Sep 2, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 39 min |
| Sep 2, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Indiana | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 57 min |
| Sep 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Harrison, Jefferson | 45 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.