Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2017, 6:01 PM EDT for Washington County, Pennsylvania; Harrison County, Jefferson County, Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2017, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2017, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Butler | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Westmoreland | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Washington | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2017Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2017Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2017Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2017
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.