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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 25, 2016Marshall County, Ohio County, Wetzel County, West Virginia; 8 counties in Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this heat advisory at Jul 25, 2016, 10:32 AM EDT for Marshall County, Ohio County, Wetzel County, West Virginia; 8 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Jul 25, 2016, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2016, 10:32 AM EDT (14:32 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 25, 2016, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 25, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Counties Belmont County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Wetzel County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1271 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 25, 9:26 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 9:26 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Beaver	36 min
Jul 25, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Armstrong	27 min
Jul 25, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Washington	36 min
Jul 25, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Jefferson	24 min
Jul 25, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Indiana	50 min
Jul 25, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland	38 min
Jul 25, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	37 min
Jul 25, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Indiana	24 min
Jul 25, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Indiana	50 min
Jul 25, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland	49 min
Jul 25, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	28 min
Jul 25, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Indiana	31 min
Jul 25, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Westmoreland	58 min
Jul 25, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland	38 min
Jul 25, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Jefferson	34 min
Jul 25, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Fayette	27 min
Jul 25, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	45 min
Jul 25, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	56 min
Jul 25, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Greene	50 min
Jul 25, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Fayette	35 min
Jul 25, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monongalia, Preston	45 min
Jul 25, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke, Hancock	34 min
Jul 25, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Tucker	27 min
Jul 25, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monongalia	35 min
Jul 25, 6:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Monongalia	114 min
Jul 25, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Preston	66 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.