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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

September 9, 202113 counties in Pennsylvania; 7 counties in West Virginia; Belmont County, Jefferson County, Monroe County, Ohio

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this special weather statement at Sep 9, 2021, 6:28 AM EDT for 13 counties in Pennsylvania; 7 counties in West Virginia; Belmont County, Jefferson County, Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2021, 6:28 AM EDT (10:28 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 2021, 8:30 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

All 23 counties

Belmont County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Wetzel County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:28 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 1652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 7.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PBZ	Fayette	25 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2021 Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2021 Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.