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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2021, 8:22 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 9, 2021, 8:22 PM EDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2021, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
County Lawrence County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 532 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Aug 9, 7:58 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 7:58 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 8:22 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 10, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Butler | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Armstrong | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Westmoreland | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Indiana | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Wetzel | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Wetzel | 27 min |
| Aug 10, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Wetzel | 38 min |
| Aug 10, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel | 13 min |
| Aug 10, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 13 min |
| Aug 10, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 16 min |
| Aug 10, 9:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Coshocton | 29 min |
| Aug 10, 11:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 25 min |
| Aug 10, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 23 min |
| Aug 10, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Tuscarawas | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 12:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Guernsey, Harrison, Muskingum, Noble | 53 min |
| Aug 10, 12:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Harrison | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Noble | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Noble | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Monroe | 29 min |
| Aug 10, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Monroe | 29 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.