Alert archive / West Virginia / High Wind Watches in 2018
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this high wind watch at Feb 28, 2018, 2:56 PM EST for Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 2, 2018, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2018, 2:56 PM EST (19:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2018, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2018, 10:10 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
County Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 28, 12:53 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 12:53 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 28, 2:56 PM EST, 0 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 256 PM EST Wed Feb 28 2018 OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-029- 031-073-075-WVZ001>004-012-021-509-012000- Tuscarawas-Carroll-Columbiana-Coshocton-Harrison-Jefferson-Muskingum- Guernsey-Belmont-Noble-Monroe-Mercer-Venango-Forest-Lawrence-Butler- Clarion-Beaver-Allegheny-Armstrong-Indiana-Washington-Greene- Westmoreland-Fayette-Hancock-Brooke-Ohio-Marshall-Wetzel-Marion- Monongalia- 256 PM EST Wed Feb 28 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Ohio, northwest Pennsylvania, southwest Pennsylvania, west central Pennsylvania, western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and northern panhandle of West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon 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. PAZ074-076-WVZ510>513-012000- Westmoreland Ridges-Fayette Ridges- Ridges of Eastern Monongalia and Northwestern Preston-Preston- Eastern Preston-Western Tucker- 256 PM EST Wed Feb 28 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Rain will change to snow Thursday night into Friday. Some accumulating snow is possible as well as gusty wind. Advisories may be needed. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. MDZ001-WVZ514-012000- Garrett-Eastern Tucker- 256 PM EST Wed Feb 28 2018 ...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western Maryland and northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Watch. In addition to strong wind gusts, rain will change to snow Thursday night into Friday. Some accumulating snow is possible. Headlines may be needed. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. 34
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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.