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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 12, 2016Fayette County, Pennsylvania; 4 counties in West Virginia; Garrett County, Maryland

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Jan 12, 2016, 3:01 PM EST for Fayette County, Pennsylvania; 4 counties in West Virginia; Garrett County, Maryland. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2016, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jan 12, 2016, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Counties Garrett County, MD, Fayette County, PA, Marion County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 347 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 10:24 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer	66 min
Jan 12, 11:29 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Jefferson and 2 more	91 min
Jan 12, 12:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Greene, Washington	93 min
Jan 12, 1:47 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Indiana	28 min
Jan 12, 9:18 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Brooke, Hancock, Ohio	87 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2016 Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2016 Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.