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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Sep 7, 2016, 5:13 PM EDT for Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 7, 2016, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
County Westmoreland County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Sep 7, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 336 PM EDT Wed Sep 7 2016 .SYNOPSIS... Warm and humid weather will continue through Saturday, with multiple disturbances providing shower and thunderstorm chances. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY/... Thunderstorms are scattered across the region as weak shortwaves move southeast on the periphery of an upper level ridge stretching over the Ohio Valley. Activity will be on the wane as we move through the evening with loss of daytime heating. Dew points will be elevated in the upper 60s to around 70 overnight, keeping min temperatures about 10 degrees above average. A weak cold front will approach during the day Thursday bringing increased shower and thunderstorm chances, especially in the afternoon. SPC has much of the area in a marginal risk for severe thunderstorms, and this seems reasonable with available low level instability and some deep layer shear. Another warm and humid day with temperatures again well above average. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... Cold front will sink south Thursday night and stall across northern West Virginia Friday. Shower chances will diminish north to south Thursday night with the front. Models differ on shortwave timing for friday into early Saturday in southwest flow aloft ahead of an approaching trough. Have kept chance pops across the south Friday spreading north into early Saturday as a compromise between models. By Saturday afternoon cold front associated with upper trough will approach with increasing thunderstorm chances. No change in the quite warm and muggy conditions through the period. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... Cold front will cross the region Saturday night with showers ending and much drier and cooler air moving into the region. High pressure will dominate through Tuesday. An approaching front will bring shower chances back into the forecast Wednesday. && .AVIATION /20Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... General VFR is forecast with the area under a predeminate upper ridge; however, exceptions include areas of predawn fog in the humid airmass as well as shortwave-supported and diurnally enhanced convection. .OUTLOOK /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... Periodic restrictions can be expected through Saturday as a frontal system encroaches on the region. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...None. OH...None. PA...None. WV...None. && 15
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 4:09 AM EDT, 13 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 409 AM EDT WED SEP 7 2016 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021-509>514-080815- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON- MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST- LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA- WASHINGTON-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-FAYETTE- FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA- RIDGES OF EASTERN MONONGALIA AND NORTHWESTERN PRESTON-PRESTON- EASTERN PRESTON-WESTERN TUCKER-EASTERN TUCKER- 409 AM EDT WED SEP 7 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 7, 4:34 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington | 27 min |
| Sep 7, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 27 min |
| Sep 7, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 19 min |
| Sep 7, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Westmoreland | 15 min |
| Sep 7, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 30 min |
| Sep 7, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 34 min |
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Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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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.