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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this winter storm warning at Mar 4, 2015, 3:47 AM EST for Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Monroe County, Ohio; Marion County, Wetzel County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 4, 2015, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2015, 3:47 AM EST (08:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 4, 2015, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2015, 3:50 PM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Monroe County, OH, Fayette County, PA, Marion County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 904 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1059 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 4, 12:10 AM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 12:10 AM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 7:25 PM EST, 8 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 725 PM EST TUE MAR 3 2015 OHZ039>041-048-PAZ007>009-013-015-016-050030- TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST- LAWRENCE-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA- 725 PM EST TUE MAR 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. 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. MDZ001-OHZ057>059-068-069-PAZ021-023-029-031-073>076-WVZ002>004-012- 021>023-041-050030- GARRETT-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-ALLEGHENY-INDIANA- WASHINGTON-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-FAYETTE- FAYETTE RIDGES-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON- TUCKER- 725 PM EST TUE MAR 3 2015 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... 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...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. WINTER STORM WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. OHZ049-050-PAZ014-020-022-WVZ001-050030- HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH-BUTLER-BEAVER-ARMSTRONG-HANCOCK- 725 PM EST TUE MAR 3 2015 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 8:11 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson | 12 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:11 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 54 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:11 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland | 54 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:33 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 14 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:47 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland | 32 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:58 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 12 hr |
| Mar 4, 8:01 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 9 hr |
| Mar 4, 8:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Greene | 9 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 18 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:58 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 20 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:35 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Fayette | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:05 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 20 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:05 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 20 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:10 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 27 hr |
| Mar 4, 8:08 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 9 hr |
| Mar 4, 8:59 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Noble | 12 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:28 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Monroe | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:11 PM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 35 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:47 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 12 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 14 hr |
| Mar 4, 7:49 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 8:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 12 hr |
| Mar 4, 9:08 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 9 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:11 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Monongalia | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:32 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 1:37 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Marion | 3 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in West Virginia, 2015Winter Storm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2015Winter Storm Warnings in Ohio, 2015Every winter storm warning in 2015
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.