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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2015, 2:28 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 14, 2015, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2015, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 14, 12:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 12:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1247 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015 MDZ001-OHZ057>059-068-069-PAZ031-075-076-WVZ003-004-012-021>023-041- 151700- GARRETT-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-GREENE-FAYETTE- FAYETTE RIDGES-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 1247 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 421 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .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. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ039>041-048>050-PAZ014-020>023-029-073-074-WVZ001-002-151700- TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH-BUTLER- BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-WESTMORELAND- WESTMORELAND RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE- 1247 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 421 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .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. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ007>009-013-015-016-151700- MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA- 1247 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 421 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 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. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Mercer | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer, Venango | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 1:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Guernsey, Noble | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Tuscarawas | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 3:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 32 min |
Nearby
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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.