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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

June 11, 2016Indiana County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2016, 4:14 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 16 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: Jun 11, 2016, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2016, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

County Indiana County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 11, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 4:26 AM EDT, 11 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
426 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2016

OHZ041-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-073-074-120830-
COLUMBIANA-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON-
BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-
426 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN
THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

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-OHZ039-040-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ029-031-075-076-
WVZ001>004-012-021-509>514-120830-
GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON-MUSKINGUM-
GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-WASHINGTON-GREENE-FAYETTE-
FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-
RIDGES OF EASTERN MONONGALIA AND NORTHWESTERN PRESTON-PRESTON-
EASTERN PRESTON-WESTERN TUCKER-EASTERN TUCKER-
426 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST
CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND
NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

STRONG...TO POSSIBLY SEVERE...THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY
AND TONIGHT. ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ISOLATED. THE MAIN THREAT
IS DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:14 PM EDT, 0 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
Jun 11, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Westmoreland	20 min
Jun 11, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Beaver	29 min
Jun 11, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Butler	24 min
Jun 11, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny	43 min
Jun 11, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Westmoreland	24 min
Jun 11, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Butler	23 min
Jun 11, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny	22 min
Jun 11, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny	21 min
Jun 11, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Armstrong	19 min
Jun 11, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	30 min
Jun 11, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Westmoreland	25 min
Jun 11, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Belmont	23 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 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.