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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 7, 2022Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Mar 7, 2022, 1:47 AM EST for Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 7, 2022, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 7, 2022, 1:47 AM EST (06:47 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 7, 2022, 10:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 7, 2022, 4:26 PM EST
In force
6 hr
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 06:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2022-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2022-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 7, 1:38 AM EST, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 1:38 AM EST, 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 7, 11:37 AM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryPBZAllegheny23 hr
Mar 7, 2:26 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZLawrence, Mercer34 min
Mar 7, 2:56 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZBeaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, Washington49 min
Mar 7, 3:38 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZAllegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Greene and 2 more52 min
Mar 7, 4:21 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningPBZFayette, Westmoreland3 hr
Mar 7, 4:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Armstrong, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Washington and 1 more47 min
Mar 7, 4:37 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZFayette53 min
Mar 7, 4:38 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZJefferson52 min
Mar 7, 11:37 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningPBZTuscarawas4 days

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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.