Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2018, 5:12 PM EDT for Marion County, Marshall County, Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 31 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
- May 29, 2018, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2018, 5:43 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 100 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 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Fayette | 34 min |
| May 29, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene, Washington | 29 min |
| May 29, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Clarion | 26 min |
| May 29, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Harrison | 27 min |
| May 29, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Monongalia | 36 min |
| May 29, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Marshall | 34 min |
Nearby
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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.