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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

April 19, 2017Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Apr 19, 2017, 8:31 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2017, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2017, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

County Columbiana County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 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 Apr 19, 8:25 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 8:25 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 2:18 PM EDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 19, 8:18 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 19, 8:31 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
Apr 19, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Lawrence	42 min
Apr 19, 10:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny, Beaver	42 min
Apr 20, 12:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Allegheny	31 min
Apr 20, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	49 min
Apr 20, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Westmoreland	61 min
Apr 20, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Beaver	52 min
Apr 20, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Westmoreland	29 min
Apr 20, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Clarion	48 min
Apr 20, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Fayette, Westmoreland	47 min
Apr 20, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana, Westmoreland	41 min
Apr 20, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson	46 min
Apr 20, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	17 min
Apr 19, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Columbiana	46 min
Apr 20, 10:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Columbiana	45 min
Apr 20, 12:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Belmont	29 min
Apr 20, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Coshocton	39 min
Apr 20, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Muskingum	37 min
Apr 20, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum	45 min
Apr 20, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Guernsey	31 min
Apr 20, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Monongalia, Preston	47 min
Apr 20, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2017 Every special weather statement 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.