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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 23, 2016Marshall County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2016, 8:10 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 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: Jul 23, 2016, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2016, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

County Marshall County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 1336 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1367 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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 Jul 23, 5:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 5:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 2:21 AM EDT, 17 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
221 AM EDT SAT JUL 23 2016

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-049-050-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029-031-073>076-
WVZ001>003-021-509>514-240630-
GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-HARRISON-JEFFERSON-MERCER-
VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-
INDIANA-WASHINGTON-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-FAYETTE-
FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARION-MONONGALIA-
RIDGES OF EASTERN MONONGALIA AND NORTHWESTERN PRESTON-PRESTON-
EASTERN PRESTON-WESTERN TUCKER-EASTERN TUCKER-
221 AM EDT SAT JUL 23 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

OHZ048-057>059-068-069-WVZ004-012-240630-
COSHOCTON-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MARSHALL-WETZEL-
221 AM EDT SAT JUL 23 2016

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   HEAT ADVISORY.

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

HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL APPROACH 100 DEGREES SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
ADDITIONAL HEAT ADVISORIES MAY BE NECESSARY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 6:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 6:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 7:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 7:29 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 8:10 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
Jul 24, 1:47 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland	18 hr
Jul 24, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Lawrence	28 min
Jul 24, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler	46 min
Jul 24, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	47 min
Jul 24, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango	46 min
Jul 24, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Westmoreland	48 min
Jul 24, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver, Washington	41 min
Jul 24, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Clarion	32 min
Jul 24, 4:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Butler, Lawrence	3 hr
Jul 24, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, Jefferson	38 min
Jul 24, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Westmoreland	50 min
Jul 24, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland	46 min
Jul 24, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana, Westmoreland	52 min
Jul 24, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	42 min
Jul 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	28 min
Jul 24, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	41 min
Jul 24, 6:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Greene	18 min
Jul 24, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Fayette	45 min
Jul 24, 7:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Greene	3 hr
Jul 24, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Marshall	46 min
Jul 24, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	50 min
Jul 24, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Carroll	33 min
Jul 24, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Belmont	42 min
Jul 24, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe, Noble	57 min

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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.